Yuvraj Singh

Full name Yuvraj Singh

Born December 12, 1981, Chandigarh

Current age 31 years 173 days

Major teams India, Asia XI, Kings XI Punjab, Pune Warriors,Punjab, Yorkshire

Playing role Middle-order batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	40	62	6	1900	169	33.92	3277	57.97	3	11	260	22	31	0
ODIs	282	260	38	8211	139	36.98	9368	87.64	13	50	850	145	91	0
T20Is	33	31	5	791	72	30.42	532	148.68	0	6	45	54	8	0
First-class	105	168	18	6756	209	45.04			20	32			96	0
List A	358	329	49	10540	172	37.64			17	65			114	0
Twenty20	118	114	14	2621	72	26.21	1960	133.72	0	13	198	145	31	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	40	35	931	547	9	2/9	2/20	60.77	3.52	103.4	0	0	0
ODIs	282	154	4904	4137	109	5/31	5/31	37.95	5.06	44.9	2	1	0
T20Is	33	21	316	373	23	3/17	3/17	16.21	7.08	13.7	0	0	0
First-class	105		2424	1390	26	5/94		53.46	3.44	93.2		1	0
List A	358		6081	5109	150	5/31	5/31	34.06	5.04	40.5	2	1	0
Twenty20	118	80	1072	1254	61	4/29	4/29	20.55	7.01	17.5	1	0	0

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
3, 0/17	Warriors	v Daredevils	Pune	19 May 2013	T20
30, 0/11	Warriors	v KKR	Ranchi	15 May 2013	T20
33, 1/21	Warriors	v Mum Indians	Pune	11 May 2013	T20
1	Warriors	v KKR	Pune	9 May 2013	T20
15, 0/16	Warriors	v Royals	Jaipur	5 May 2013	T20
0/15, 16	Warriors	v RCB	Pune	2 May 2013	T20
5	Warriors	v Super Kings	Pune	30 Apr 2013	T20
0/9, 31	Warriors	v Daredevils	Raipur	28 Apr 2013	T20
16	Warriors	v RCB	Bangalore	23 Apr 2013	T20
34, 1/15	Warriors	v Kings XI	Mohali	21 Apr 2013	T20

Profile

When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as clean and long as it has ever been hit. When all is not well, he looks so awkward you forget he can hit the ball clean and long. All is well with Yuvraj more often in limited-overs cricket, where he can be effortless and brutal at the same time, than in Tests. When he started off his athleticism on the field and his canny left-arm spin made him a dream one-day player as Indian cricket went through a makeover at the turn of the century.

Yuvraj's father, Yograj, who played one Test for India, was what Mike Agassi was to Andre. So obsessed was he with Yuvraj's cricket that he took a skating gold medal off his young son's neck and threw it out of the car. "From now on, you are going to play cricket." And from then on he has played cricket. The major shift came when, at 15, he carried kitbags in crowded local trains, living away from his parents and a luxurious life in Punjab. At 18 he was shredding a strong Australian attack, in only his second ODI, in the Champions Trophy in 2000.

Soon Yuvraj would become India's middle-order lynchpin, forming fruitful partnerships first with Rahul Dravid and then with MS Dhoni. Both batsmen, superb ODI operators in their own right, credited their success to Yuvraj's ability to score at will. Testament to Yuvraj's importance is that when he was dropped from the ODI side in 2010, it was the first such occurrence since he cemented his place in the Indian team. His ODI career is full of highlight reels, with the biggest impact being his contribution to India's World Cup triumph in 2011 - 362 runs, 15 wickets, and four Man-of-the-Match awards, and the Player of the Tournament. That put to shade even his awesome achievement in the World Twenty20 triumph in 2007, where he famously hit a Stuart Broad over for six sixes.

However, his limitations have manifested themselves in Tests, where he has struggled both against the seaming and swinging ball, and quality spin. Apart from three shining innings - a sparkling century on a Lahore greentop, another from 61 for 4 against Pakistan, and an unbeaten 85 in a successful chase of 387 in Chennai - his Test career doesn't have much to write home about.

The World Cup win in 2011 was the biggest moment of his cricket career, but soon after that came the biggest challenge of his life, when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer which required a two-and-a-half month treatment in the USA. He returned home after completing his chemotherapy in April 2012, fairly confident that he could resume his duties on the cricket field reasonably quickly and in August he was named in India's squad for the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.