Happy Birthday Yuvraj Singh, The King Of Sixes!

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The Cricketer and a survivor who fought the deadly tumor took to his twitter handle on his birthday to take a pledge to support 25 children suffering from Cancer.

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Today, on his 37th birthday, newstrack.com brings you some incidences from Yuvraj Singh’s life that are lesser known to the fans of the ‘tough boy’ of Indian cricket……

Yuvraj’s medal was thrown by his father:

• Yuvraj was an ardent fan of tennis and roller skating.
• He was so good at roller skating that he won the National U-14 Roller Skating Championship, but his father threw his National level medal and asked him to focus only on cricket.

Yuvi loves acting:

• Yuvi confessed that he loves acting but is not good at it.
• Yuvraj Singh had actually worked as a child artiste in a Punjabi film. The scene he did for the film shows him running, and the surprising part is that it was directed by Yuvraj himself.
• Yuvraj Singh has also done a Bollywood animated movie ‘Jumbo’. Yuvraj did voice over in the movie.
• Upcoming animated feature film ‘Captain India’ features Yuvraj Singh as the lead protagonist.

Yuvraj and his Cancer fight:

• Post ICC World Cup he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour stage-1 in his left lung and underwent chemotherapy treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, United States.
• Yuvraj was discharged from hospital after completing the third and final cycle of chemotherapy and returned to India in April 2012.
• Yuvraj Singh, after battling cancer, started his NGO YouWeCan.
• He plans to help cancer patients in their treatment with his NGO.
• After his battle with Cancer, Yuvi penned down his autobiography titled, The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.

Yuvi's fairytale wedding with Hazel:

• Yuvraj Singh was born on December 12,1981.
• The cricketer tied knot with model Hazel Keech on Nov 30, 2016.
• The couple met at a mutual friend's birthday party in 2011, but it was only in 2014 that they became friends.
• After much persuasion, Hazel agreed to go on a date with Yuvraj, and soon, they fell head over heels in love with each other.
• They took their relationship to the next level after two years of courtship.

Other facts about Yuvi's life:

• He is an Indian international cricketer and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi actor Yograj Singh.
• He has been a member of the Indian Cricket Team since October 2000 and played his first Test match in October 2003.
• He was declared the Man of the Tournament in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
• Yuvraj was conferred with the Arjuna Award, India’s second highest sporting award, in the year 2012 by the President Pranab Mukherjee.
• In 2014, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour.
• He was the only player to hit six sixes in an over in a limited over game in International Cricket.
• Yuvraj Singh is the only Indian after Sachin Tendulkar signed by Yorkshire to represent the county.
• Brian Lara Cricket, a computer and video game series by Codemasters was very popular. In 2007, it was launched in India under the name of Yuvraj Singh International Cricket 2007.
• Singh was the one who was signed as a brand ambassador by Microsoft when Xbox 360 video game console was launched in India in 2006.