Yuvraj Singh’s triumph over cancer

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First, he denied it. Then, he found courage to face it and finally, he won his battle against cancer. Yuvraj Singh looks back on his journey in this 2018 video.

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00:00The doctor said, it's a tumour, your son has cancer.

00:04I said, doctor, he's lying.

00:06I won't sit on a wheelchair, no matter how sick I get.

00:09The next day, in the paper,

00:12in the news, everywhere,

00:15it was like, my cricket career is over.

00:30In 2010, I woke up one day, I was sleeping at night and I coughed a lot.

00:46I woke up, went to the bathroom, coughed,

00:51there was a little blood.

00:57So I said, something is wrong.

01:00The next day, I met my physio, I told him that I was having trouble breathing.

01:04I was having trouble breathing in the match.

01:08I was running the run, I couldn't breathe.

01:11So I told my physio that I couldn't breathe from the left side,

01:14I was having trouble.

01:16So our doctor said, get it checked.

01:21I said, okay, once this tournament is over,

01:22we'll go to India and get it checked.

01:25We went to India, the World Cup camp started.

01:28So I said, I won't get it checked, because I know something is wrong.

01:32Let's focus on the game.

01:33So, we won the World Cup.

01:36Yuvraj Singh, Man of the Series, four Man of the Match,

01:39one trophy Man of the Series.

01:43Suddenly, from low to high, I was on top of my world.

01:46I was 29 years old, I was at the peak of my career.

01:51It was a dream.

01:52After that, I was coughing a lot.

01:55We had a four-month tour to England.

01:57The doctor said, you're coughing a lot, get a scan done.

02:01I said, what's the point of a scan?

02:02I was bleeding.

02:03He said, what happened?

02:04I said, we have to go to India and play.

02:05If the soldiers can take a bullet,

02:09why can't we play with the blood?

02:12After that, the doctor came.

02:13He said, we have a serious problem.

02:16He said, come inside the room.

02:18I went inside the room, I said, yes, tell me.

02:20He said, look at this scan.

02:21It was a scan of two lungs.

02:25You can see the lungs.

02:26On one lung, it was completely white.

02:29You couldn't see the lungs at all.

02:32It was completely white.

02:33I don't know how to see scans.

02:36So, I told the doctor,

02:37on one side, it's black and white, and on the other side…

02:41He said, there's nothing visible on your left lung.

02:47You'll have to get a biopsy done.

02:51I said, doctor, tell me seriously, what's the problem?

02:54The doctor said, I think there's a tumor on your left lung.

02:58I said, doctor, I'm an athlete.

03:03I practice 5-6 hours a day.

03:06I have a very healthy lifestyle.

03:09I eat well, I drink well, I sleep well.

03:11I can't have a tumor.

03:13Do you understand?

03:14There's a doctor, a family doctor.

03:17He actually got the reports.

03:19And he called me.

03:20He said, Yuvraj Singh,

03:24have you lost your mind?

03:26I said, son,

03:28I said some cancer terminology.

03:31You only have 3-6 months left.

03:36So, it took me a year to accept that I have cancer.

03:41Anyways, I went through chemotherapy.

03:45I struggled a lot.

03:49I can't really say what the treatment was.

03:51I went through so many difficulties.

03:53I started exercising, but I became weak.

03:56My body...

03:57There were some kids on a wheelchair.

04:00I said, I won't sit on a wheelchair.

04:02No matter how sick I get, I won't sit on a wheelchair.

04:05But eventually,

04:07after the third cycle, I had to sit on a wheelchair.

04:09But when I was going through that moment,

04:12I always thought that I'll come back and play for India.

04:15The doctors said,

04:16if you survive,

04:18after two or three years, you can start playing again.

04:22I came back and played for India after six months.

04:25Guys, write your own destiny.

04:28Anyways, I played for India after six months.

04:31I struggled.

04:32My body wasn't the same.

04:34Failures after failures, failures after failures.

04:36Life had become about failures.

04:38Because everyone said that my cricket career is over.

04:41My body wasn't the same.

04:43There was a T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.

04:46In the final of T20 World Cup,

04:48Yuvraj Singh scored 11 runs and scored 21 balls in the final.

04:52Worst performance of my cricket career.

04:53The next day, it was all over the news.

04:57It was like,

04:58cricket career is over. Worst performance of his life.

05:01He's over.

05:02Pretty much.

05:03I was so devastated.

05:04I thought that my career is over.

05:08Tendulkar told me that

05:10one match can't define my career.

05:16So, start again.

05:18I started playing.

05:20I was about 30, 33, 34.

05:23I played domestically.

05:25I scored a lot of runs in domestic cricket that year.

05:28After that, I got famous in the Indian team again.

05:31I came back to one-day cricket after three years.

05:33Everyone said that I won't be able to come back.

05:40I scored around 800 runs in domestic cricket in five matches.

05:42I came back after that.

05:43And I scored 150 runs in the first match against England.

05:54It was the best score of my one-day cricket career.

06:00When everyone said that my career is over,

06:03I scored my highest one-day score.

06:06Because I never gave up.

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