Popular Indian athlete Yuvraj Singh turns 43 today (Thursday, December 12). The legendary all-rounder is receiving huge fanfare for his record-breaking performances on the field.
Yuvraj was a gunslinger and provided both bat and ball during his career. The Punjab-born player is a two-time World Cup winner (T20 in 2007 and ODI in 2011).
The left-hander has been an inspiration to many, especially at the 2011 World Cup, where he won the best player of the tournament award while battling cancer. He was the first player to hit six sixes in a T20 World Cup (against Stuart Broad against England in 2007).
On his special day, Bollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh wished Yuvraj a birthday wish, praising him for breaking ‘boundaries’, pushing ‘limits’ and writing ‘history’.
Rakul Preet Singh wrote on Instagram:
“I support a life that has always broken boundaries, broken limits, and created history. Happy birthday, Yuvraj!”
Take a look at the message below.
Yuvraj Singh enjoyed a successful international career, scoring over 10,000 runs and taking 150 wickets across different formats. He has also scored 4,857 runs in 231 T20Is and won two IPL trophies with SunRisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians.
Off the field, Yuvraj Singh was quite popular for his looks and physique. According to a report in Bollywoodhshadis.com, he has dated several B-town actresses including Kim Sharma, Preeti Jhangiani, Deepika Padukone, Riya Sen, Minissha Lamba, Preity Zinta and Neha Dhupia.
Yuvraj Singh has revealed that a Bollywood actress he dated made the mistake of wearing women’s slippers to the airport.
In a recent interview, Yuvraj Singh revealed that he had to wear women’s slippers due to the behavior of a Bollywood actress during her tour Down Under in 2008. He told the Club Prairie Fire podcast (via ABP):
“She was filming in Adelaide. I told her that I was on tour in Australia and that we needed to stop seeing each other for a while and focus. She followed me by bus to Canberra. In the two Tests I didn’t score many runs. And I thought, ‘What are you doing here?’ And she said, ‘I want to spend time with you.’”
He continued:
“I told her you need to focus on your career and I need to focus on mine because I’m on tour in Australia. You know what that means. Anyway, we were going to leave from Canberra to Adelaide and she “I’ve packed my suitcase.”
“In the morning I was like, ‘Where are my shoes?’ She said, ‘I packed them.’ I said, ‘How do I get on the bus?’ And she said, ‘Put mine on.’ He was wearing pink slip-ons and I thought, ‘Oh my God,’ I should have been wearing pink slip-ons, but when I tried to hide the bag in front of my shoes, the guys started clapping and I wore pink slip-ons. at the airport “I went there and fell.”
Yuvraj Singh was recently appointed as the Global Brand Ambassador for ICC for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
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