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Yuvraj Singh: Career, Records and Key Achievements
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 IST
Yuvraj Singh: Career, Records and Key Achievements

Yuvraj Singh declared to retire from all formats of international cricket. Yuvraj Singh will be remembered for his performance in the cricket World Cup 2011. Yuvraj singh has many records by his names. He is the only player who had scored 6 sixes in the T-20 Cricket World Cup.

 
 

Full Name: Yuvraj Singh
 
Date of Birth: December 12, 1981, Chandigarh
 
Current age: 37 years 180 days
 
Playing role: Middle-order batsman
 
Batting style: Left-hand bat
 
World Record: Hit 6 sixes in 6 balls in ICC World T-20 in 2007.
 
About Yuvraj singh
 
Yuvraj Singh a Chandigarh boy was born in 1981 was a backbone of the middle of the Indian cricket team. Yuvraj Singh was declared "Man of the Series" in the cricket world cup 2011.  Yuvraj Singh had amassed 362 runs and took 15 wickets in the cricket World Cup 2011.  Read this article to know more records of the Yuvraj singh.
 
Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh are only two Indians who have won ‘Man of the Series’ award in the cricket World Cups so far.
 
Yuvraj Singh debut
 
Test debut: India v New Zealand at Mohali, Oct 16-20, 2003 scorecard
 
Last Test: India v England at Kolkata, Dec 5-9, 2012 scorecard
 
ODI debut: Kenya v India at Nairobi (Gym), Oct 3, 2000 scorecard
 
Last ODI: West Indies v India at North Sound, Jun 30, 2017 scorecard
 
T20I debut: India v Scotland at Durban, Sep 13, 2007 scorecard
 
Last T20I: India v England at Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2017 scorecard
 
Yuvraj Singh was conferred with the Arjuna Award (India's second highest sporting award) in 2012. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2014.
 
At the 2014 IPL auction Royal Challengers Bangalore bought Yuvraj for an all-time high price of Rs 14 crore and, in 2015, the Delhi Daredevils bought him for Rs 16 crore making him the most expensive player ever to be sold in the IPL history.
 
Batting Career records of Yuvraj Singh
  Format

Mat

Inns

Runs

HS

Avg.

100

50

Tests

40

62

1900

169

33.92

3

11

ODIs

304

278

8701

150

36.55

14

52

T20Is

58

51

1177

77*

28.02

 

8

First-class

139

221

8965

260

44.16

26

36

T20s

231

216

4857

83

25.69

 

27

 
Yuvraj Singh was a good batsman of Indian middle order. He had scored 8701 runs at the average of 36 alongwith 14 centuries in the one day international matches.

 
 

Bowling Career records of Yuvraj Singh
 Format

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

Ave

Eco.

SR

4w

5w

Tests

40

35

931

547

9

2/9

60.77

3.52

103.4

 

 

ODIs

304

161

5048

4294

111

5/31

38.68

5.10

45.4

2

1

T20Is

58

31

424

499

28

3/17

17.82

7.06

15.1

 

 

First-class

139

 

3408

1978

41

5/94

48.24

3.48

83.1

 

1

List A

423

 

7083

6010

166

5/31

36.20

5.09

42.6

2

1

T20s

231

130

1597

1989

80

4/29

24.86

7.47

19.9

2

Yuvraj Singh was a good all-rounder cricketer in all formats of the cricket. He had taken 111 wickets in the ODIs and 9 wickets in the test matches.
 
Autobiography of Yuvraj Singh
 
 
The book “The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back” is an autobiography of Yuvraj Singh. Released on 19th March 2013.The starting price of this book was a bit high Rs. 5000 but now it is available in 480 Indian rupees.
 
So this was the complete overview of the cricket records of the Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj was a complete middle order batsman who played a very crucial role in India’s victory in the cricket world cup 2011.

 
 
 
 
 

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