New Delhi: Star cricketer Yuvraj Singh is currently in USA for treatment of cancer in his left lung and would be undergoing chemotherapy for the same after the ailment was diagnosed as ‘not life threatening’ by the doctors.
Yuvraj physio Jatin Choudhary told Zee News that Yuvraj is suffering from cancer, which has been detected in last October. He also added that the all-rounder is undergoing chemotherapy in the US and will continue till March.
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“Yuvraj Singh is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the US. It will be a three-phase treatment where the American doctors will get him back on his feet post the diagnosis of lung cancer, which is not life-threatening,” Jatin said.
Yuvraj’s illness has reportedly led to a break-up of a long term cricket partnership between the BCCI and Sahara India.
Things were not smooth between the long time sponsor Sahara India and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a while. Even though there were several other reasons in the past too, for the eventual break up from a 12-year long partnership, the illness of the Pune Warriors skipper Yuvraj Singh led to the sudden end, minutes before the players’ auction for the 2012 season.
Sahara's marquee player in the IPL is Yuvraj Singh, who is currently recovering from tumour in the lungs and will not be able to play this year. His unavailability in the IPL this season prompted Sahara to ask the BCCI that the price of the batsman be added to their overall purse for the players’ auction but the request was turned down.
"Yuvraj Singh, who is truly like one of our family members, is, quite unfortunately, passing through a bad phase health wise, undergoing treatment for critical illness, overseas,” Sahara said.
"Our duty is to take care of him, so Sahara has decided to pay him his full fee this year with condition as a Guardian that his priority should be health care and he should not play till he has fully recovered," the company stated.
"We requested the BCCI on the basis of the fact that we have only one Indian marquee player, that we be allowed to add price of Yuvraj Singh in our auction purse, during the February 4 auction because we had later taken Sourav Ganguly at 0.4 million.”
"Again, we have been denied on the basis of the rule book. Yet again, a case of being denied natural justice. We think this peculiar situation of Shri Yuvraj Singh is silent in the rule book because it probably talks only about players who are temporarily injured," it said.
source: Zee News
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