'Six months left to live': Yuvraj Singh reveals chilling warning he got before cancer treatment
Yuvraj Singh has spoken about the period when he was diagnosed with cancer, saying the illness began when he was at the peak of his career, even as he continued to play for India. At that time, Yuvraj had just played a big role in India’s 2011 World Cup win, he was Player of the Tournament. During the tournament, he was dealing with fatigue, nausea and discomfort.
The illness was not detected then, and he continued to play. After the tournament, his condition got worse and medical tests later found a rare form of cancer, with a tumour in his chest. “Not coming to terms with it was something I was going through because, as a sportsman, you can’t be sick.
You’re supposed to play for India. But eventually, I kept getting sicker and sicker while still playing cricket,” Yuvraj said in a conversation with Michael Vaughan on The Overlap podcast on YouTube. He said sport often trains players to ignore such signs.
“As a sportsman, you don’t think about being sick. You’re supposed to play for India. ” "It was hard to accept.
At the peak of your career, you're on top of a mountain and then you fall into a ditch," Yuraj said on getting to know that he had cancer. "I was in Delhi. We were going on tour to the West Indies and England.