A Fi ghter On And Off The Fi eld

Yuvraj Singh excelled in junior cricket, before extending his artistry to the international arena where he came to clobber the best of bowlers with rare flamboyance.

- Vijay Lokapally

He needn’t be as busy as before. For Yuvraj Singh, time away from cricket was“unthinkable” but sometimes life can dictate the course you need to take. By announcing his retirement from active cricket, Yuvraj, perhaps, took the harshest decision of his life, which was rocked by the medical condition that left him, in his own words, “staring at death.” Like the many tough battles that he waged on the cricket field, he won this “off the field” confrontation too with the determination of a man who never accepted defeat.

Yuvraj should have been a roller-skater. He just loved it. But his father, Yograj Singh, was a cricketer. And Yuvraj could not have been anything else. His father, a one-Test wonder, took to films and rose to become a star in the Punjabi film industry. Yuvraj, too, found himself playing a few roles as a child. But cricket beckoned him through his father’s resolve to live his dreams by preparing his son to play big time.