Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Life appears full circle for Yuvraj Singh


9:30pm. 10.2 Over’s. It’s another wicket down for India. Raina falls this time. Loud cheers at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, even as Raina was walking off. It was a much anticipated return of ‘You-We’ (Yuvraj Singh).

It appeared as if just for a moment cricket took a back seat.

If you would have touched down any day before 8th September at Vishakapatnam, a huge hoarding just in front of the cricket stadium proclaimed – “Welcome to the city of Destiny.” It was for a man who has been on a roller coaster of nightmares, dreams and ideas.

Yuvraj Singh was the fairy-tale at Vishakapatnam, a full capacity crowd had thronged inside the stadium in the anticipation of two major milestones. Vishakapatnam was hosting its first ever T-20 Match and it was a very extraordinary match for all Indians. A born-again Indian batsman – Yuvraj Singh was expected to commence his second innings on the cricket field.

The weather gods however had dissimilar ideas as rain made the match non-starter.   

Yuvraj was diagnosed with the ailment between his lungs within months of winning Man of the Tournament award in 2011 World Cup. His cricket career seemed to be in danger when the diagnosis was first revealed but this flamboyant all-rounder brawled back after undergoing three phases of chemotherapy in US.       
  
His comeback triggered excitement. Earlier he had mentioned that it was a new lease of life for him and he wanted to make that most of it. It doesn’t matters whether he scored 1 run or 34. What mattered was that he was playing.

The unique part behind this story is that he took a lap for few days and we, as One Country, One India, cheered for him. Though this champion of ours, had encountered such big problems, but the key was that when he was back on the field, he forgot it all.

Though India lost the match by 1 run, but Yuvraj Singh was the WINNER. 

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