The Indian team regularly undergoes a series of fitness tests with 'Yo-Yo' endurance test being the most important of them.
Axed from the One-Day International squad due to lack of fitness and form, Yuvraj Singh made a Test comeback when the selectors met in Chennai on Saturday to pick the Indian team for the three-match series in Sri Lanka, beginning July 10. Yuvraj was included in India's 16-member squad along with Rahul Dravid and Wriddhiman Saha.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni seems to be satisfied with Yuvraj Singh's cameo in the third and final T20 against Australia in Sydney and expects that the veteran left-hander would only get better as he plays more and more matches in the lead upto the ICC World T20 starting in just over a month's time.
India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh's mother Shabnam on Friday sought to clear the air on reports that the her son owes a whopping 96.43 lakh in service tax on his income from the first and second Indian Premier League season, saying the King's XI Punjab batsman was paid only for playing and not promotional activity.
Middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh will soon rediscover his touch and play an important role for India in the next year's World Cup in the sub-continent, feels legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
Axed from the One-Day International squad due to lack of fitness and form, Yuvraj Singh is likely to make a Test comeback when the selectors meet in Chennai on Saturday to pick the Indian team for the three-match series in Sri Lanka.
Yuvraj Singh was on Thursday charged by the Chandigarh police for the second time for breaching security norms as he allegedly left the team hotel on Tuesday night without informing concerned officials.
The under-fire captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, on Sunday, retained captaincy while all-rounder Yuvraj Singh returned to India's ODI team for the first time since last year's World Cup triumph after he was picked in the 15-member squad for the upcoming series against Pakistan.
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Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara on Wednesday replaced Yuvraj Singh as the captain of the Kings XI Punjab team for the third edition of the cash-rich Indian Premier League.
Former captain Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday backed Yuvraj Singh to make his comeback to the Indian Test team after his good all-round show for India 'A' against England in the warm-up match last week.
India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh sustained a left ankle injury during the barefoot football session on Tuesday. In fact, Yuvraj has a history of injuries, sustained especially during training sessions, which have kept him out of major tournaments in the past. Rediff.com gives you a quick flashback of those unfortunate moments that have marred Yuvraj's career.
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Several former players, including India's Harbhajan Singh and VVS Laxman, on Thursday said that the turning Motera pitch, on which India defeated England by 10 wickets inside two days, was not ideal for Test cricket, an opinion that was not shared by the legendary Sunil Gavaskar.
Indian cricketers Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh took some time off from their busy schedule to catch the action at the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, on Thursday.
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The Indian cricket team think-tank's urge to play more all-rounders in recent years has got a lot to do with the current crop of top-order batters not rolling their arms over unlike some of their illustrious seniors from the bygone era.
The dashing left-hander will address the media in Gurgaon on Wednesday at 1230 where he will announce his future plans and details about the treatment he underwent in the US.
Comeback batsman Yuvraj Singh was picked in the India A squad which will play England XI in their opening three-day practice game scheduled from October 30 in Mumbai.
India captain Virat Kohli, senior batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni and stylish left-handed batsmen Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina, have found places in this year's ESPN World Fame 100 list that made its debut last year.
Yuzvendra Chahal might be despondent after the selectors snubbed him for the T20I series against Australia, but the leg-spinner channelised his angst positively with a six-wicket burst against Uttarakhand.
Long-serving Proteas all-rounder Jacques Kallis has announced that he will make a special donation to the Yuvraj Singh Foundation.
A call on him playing the match will be taken after he undergoes a fitness test on Wednesday.
"You will matter when it matters the most" are the words that Tendulkar told Yuvraj Singh, which served as an inspiration for the dashing all-rounder during India's World Cup triumph last year.
Yuvraj Singh showed why he is regarded as India's biggest match-winner as he blasted an unbeaten 77 to propel India to a six-wicket victory over Australia in a high-scoring one-off T20, in Rajkot, on Thursday.
Yuvraj Singh is a heartbroken man. Despite scoring a match-winning 77 against Australia in the one-off T20 at Rajkot on Thursday, he was saddened by the news of Sachin Tendulkar's retirement.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes in keeping his emotions under check and as a leader, he wants to guard Yuvraj Singh from the hype surrounding the World Cup hero's comeback against New Zealand in the first Twenty20 match in Vizag on Saturday.
The left-hander is down with fever and will miss the match against West Indies.
Ace batsman Yuvraj Singh is unlikely to play in the fifth edition of Indian Premier League. He is undergoing treatment for a non-malignant lung tumour and is expected to be out of competitive cricket for about six months.
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On Monday, Chaturvedi became the first quadruple centurion in the Cooch Behar Trophy final as his knock earned Karnataka their maiden title in the U19 tournament.
The duo, donning the Spring Summer Collection 2006 of Reebok, posed for the shutterbugs along with a host of models.
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who underwent three cycles of chemotherapy in United States for a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs, returned to the country on Monday to a rousing reception from adoring fans in New Delhi.
Led by Saharan, who is leading the batting charts with 389 runs, the team's performance got better with each match and the only time it has been pushed to a corner in the tournament is the semifinal where it pipped hosts South Africa by a solitary wicket.
11 other players have quoted the highest base price for this year's auction to be held on February 6 in Bangalore.
The Punjab batsman on Monday received his 'man of the series' award -- a Ford Fiesta -- for the four-match ODI series against South Africa in October last year.
Royal Challengers Bangalore director P A Murali revealed the strategy behind not retaining Yuvraj Singh, saying it was to ensure that the purse of other teams are exhausted and help them get better cricketers for IPL 8.
Balram Singh met Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh in Sydney.
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