Happy Birthday to the ‘Yuvraj’ of Indian Cricket...!

Lucknow: Yuvraj Singh, a player well known for his accomplishments in Cricket, a man that posses an image of 'bad boy' of Indian Cricket Team and a lad who is popular for his carefree nature and great fashion sense among his fans.

We have always known the player and winner 'Yuvraj' of the Indian Cricket Team, one who always steals the show, weather on field or on ramp but not many of us are aware of his struggles of life.

On his 34th birthday, newstrack.com brings you some incidences from Yuvraj Singh's life that were unknown for 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.

Other facts about Yuvi:

• Yuvraj Singh was born on December 12,1981.
• The cricketer recently tied knot with Hazel Keech, a well known name in modelling industry.
• 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.