Yuvraj Singh

Born
12 December 1981,Chandigarh, India
Nickname
Yuvi
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Batting style
Left-handed
Bowling style
Slow left arm
Role

All Rounder
Test debut

16 October 2003 v New zealand
ODI debut
3 October 2000 v Kenya

Yuvraj first came to attention when he captained the U-19 Punjab Cricket Team in the final of the Cooch-Behar Trophy against Bihar U-19s, in which he scored 358.Then he gained selection for the U-19 World Cup in Shri Lanka in January 2000, where he was part of a team lead by

Mohammed Kaif which won the tournament. Yuvraj was subsequently selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.

On 19 September 2007 against England in the ICC T20 Super 8 match held at Kingsmead in Durban, he hit 6 sixes off one Sturat Broad's over. This helped him to reach the fastest fifty ever in Twenty20 game, off just 12 balls and also the fastest in any form of international cricket This was the fourth time that six sixes had been hit in one over in senior cricket, the first time in Twenty20 cricket, and the first time in any form of international cricket against a bowler from a test playing nation. He has also hit the longest six of the tournament:119 meters off of Australian bowler Brett Lee and currently is the world's leading 20-20 batsman in terms of strike rate.He is the icon player and captain for Indian Premier League team Kings XI Punjab. On 1 May 2009, Yuvraj picked up his first hat-trick in T20 cricket against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Kingsmead in Durban, the same ground where he hit his six sixes. He dismissed Robin Uthappa,Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis. On 17 May 2009, Yuvraj picked up his second Twenty20 hat-trick against Deccan Chargers at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. Yuvraj dismissed Herschelle Gibbs,Andrew Symonds and Venugopal Rao.