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Yuvraj has cancer; undergoing chemo in US
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 5
The moment you think about India’s ODI World Cup win last year, the one image that hits you is of a charged up Yuvraj Singh. People remember the flamboyance, the flair, the all-round show he put up in the premier one-day tournament. But what is forgotten is that just before that, he was struggling to break into the playing eleven on a regular basis. Questions had started cropping up on whether he had lost focus.

The dashing southpaw replied with his bat, and with lots of grit. But now he has a bigger battle at hand and he will have to fight harder, much harder.

It has been revealed that Yuvraj, who was earlier said to have a non-malignant lung tumor, is suffering from cancer. Currently, he is undergoing chemotherapy at Cancer Research Institute in Boston.

The news means a massive blow to Team India and all its fans as the Chandigarh lad was expected to be back in the team early this year after he had almost made himself available for the ongoing ODI tri-series in Australia before opting out at the last moment.

Dr Jatin Chaudhary, Yuvraj’s physiotherapist, said: “It is a rare tumour and is cancerous but it has been detected in stage one itself. Doctors had to decide whether to continue medication or go for chemotherapy but since parts of the tumour are just above the artery of his heart, there was a danger that while running, it could burst. But it is 100 per cent curable."

His family and friends remained unavailable for comment throughout the day. In November last year, it was Yuvraj’s mother Shabnam who had tweeted about her son’s illness while he was training at the National Cricket Academy, Bangalore.