Yuvraj eyes return to game after cancer fight
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April 12, 2012, Thursday
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YUVRAJ Singh, the outstanding player in India's World Cup triumph at home last year, is certain he will return to the international side after battling cancer but will wait until he has fully recovered both physically and mentally.
The 30-year old was told last year that he had a golf ball-sized non-malignant tumor. The diagnosis was changed in February to a cancerous condition called "mediastinal seminoma".
After receiving treatment in the United States in March, Yuvraj spent a few days in London recuperating from the side-effects of chemotherapy before returning to India on Monday.
"I don't know what I will come back and be able to do. Getting back on the field will be a big achievement for me," Yuvraj, who is currently bald following chemotherapy, told reporters at his academy near New Delhi yesterday. "My body needs to recuperate, and to deal with all that pressure and to play for India again will be a very big achievement for me.
"As a sportsman you can only say, I'm going to work hard... One thing I always think about is that I want to put the cap with the India logo back on my head."
The hard-hitting middle-order batsman is not a regular member of India's test team but is an automatic choice in its limited overs sides.
Yuvraj, the player of the tournament in India's 50-over World Cup triumph last year, was also a main contributor in its 2007 World Twenty20 triumph, during which he hit England fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over in one match.
The 30-year old was told last year that he had a golf ball-sized non-malignant tumor. The diagnosis was changed in February to a cancerous condition called "mediastinal seminoma".
After receiving treatment in the United States in March, Yuvraj spent a few days in London recuperating from the side-effects of chemotherapy before returning to India on Monday.
"I don't know what I will come back and be able to do. Getting back on the field will be a big achievement for me," Yuvraj, who is currently bald following chemotherapy, told reporters at his academy near New Delhi yesterday. "My body needs to recuperate, and to deal with all that pressure and to play for India again will be a very big achievement for me.
"As a sportsman you can only say, I'm going to work hard... One thing I always think about is that I want to put the cap with the India logo back on my head."
The hard-hitting middle-order batsman is not a regular member of India's test team but is an automatic choice in its limited overs sides.
Yuvraj, the player of the tournament in India's 50-over World Cup triumph last year, was also a main contributor in its 2007 World Twenty20 triumph, during which he hit England fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over in one match.
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