1. Yuvraj is the only Indian crickter after Sachin Tendulkar to have been signed by English county Yorkshire, an honor few overseas players are bestowed upon.
2.Yuvraj Singh was signed by Microsoft as a brand ambassador when the Xbox 360 video game console was launched in the Indian market way back in 2006.
3. He was an avid roller-skater as a child, and has also won gold medal the National Under-14 Roller Skating Championship.
4.Yuvraj is a huge Sachin fan since childhood. Yuvraj cherishes those moments he spent on the crease with the master blaster, and rates that test in Chennai in 2008 when he had a crucial partnership with Sachin to win India the match as one of his greatest cricketing moments.
5. Yuvraj used to study at Chandigarh's DAV School. The Southpaw had the maximum attendance on the cricket pitch though, and it is said that Yuvraj broke a sign of the school's name which used to be on the school's wall with a barrage of huge sixes.
6. When he was 7 years old, he kept insisting his mother to buy him a bicycle. When she finally agreed, Yuvraj jammed the bicycle onto a rickshaw on the very first ride and ended up with 10 STITCHES.
7. When one of Yuvraj's friends brought an air gun when they were young, and nobody could figure out how it worked, Yuvi took the matter into his own hands and accidently shot his friend in the stomach! Thankfully no damage was done!
8.He didn,t know that he was in cancer at the time of 2011 world cup and gave his best knock in world cup.
9. Many times we see cricketers lose their cool on field and do various sorts of actions to express frustration. And Yuvi reveals he was no different. “There was a time I would throw my bat if I was given out by the Umpire and one day Sachin told me ‘the bat you just threw, that brings food to your home. Never do that again.’ And his advice worked wonders and never have I repeated the same mistake again.”
10. We all have heard about Yuvi's battle with cancer, but did you know that Yuvraj was diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs, for which he underwent three cycles of chemotheraphy in the United States.
11. Yuvraj Singh has also done a Bollywood animated movie ‘Jumbo’. Yuvraj did a voice over in the movie produced by Akshay Kumar. And he worked in some of Punjabi films also.
12. Yuvraj has started a great initiative with 'YouWeCan', with which he plans to help cancer patients in their treatment. YouWeCan has helped in bringing out cancer cases of 1,25,000 people and they all are getting treated.
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