YUVRAJ SINGH

Another Punjab-born cricketer who was amazingly talented and touched the skies with his performance for Team India is Yuvraj Singh. The left-handed hard-hitting batsman made his India debut in 2000 at the age of 18 years and made a brilliant first impression by making 80-odd runs against Australia in his maiden outing with the bat.

Since then, he became one of the most valued members of the team thanks to his amazing fielding in the circle, his left-arm off-breaks and also his hard-hitting batting down the order. Though he played 40 Tests, he couldn’t manage to cement his spot in the team, something that even he regrets.

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However, Yuvraj remains one of the all-time great limited-overs players with his exploits in ODIs and T20Is, including his six sixes in an over against England in 2007 World T20, which India won.

But what no one can forget was his spirited fight in the 2011 World Cup where he starred with both the bat and the ball, earning the Player of the Tournament award. But his fight with lung cancer left him struggling to achieve peak fitness afterward, and a knee injury reduced his fielding prowess as well.

His lowest point was the 2014 World T20 in Bangladesh, where he struggled throughout with the bat, including in the final, which India lost to Sri Lanka.

Yuvraj should have taken the hint and called time on his career then but managed to make a comeback in 2017, making his highest ODI score of 150 against England at home. But after that, he was dropped for more fitter players and after several tries to make another comeback and a rather disappointing IPL 2019, he called time on his career the same year.