Happy Birthday Yuvraj Singh: 5 biggest moments of the Yuvi's super career- Watch

It was the year 2000. India were struggling at 130-4 against Australia in the ICC Knockout Trophy in Nairobi, when an 18-year-old Yuvraj Singh came to bat for the first time in ODI cricket. The left hander scored 84 off just 80 balls an attack that included the likes of Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee. He also displayed his supernatural powers on the field taking a spectacular catch.

India beat the world champions by 20 runs and a star was born.

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It is considered India’s best ODI games ever. India were 156-5 chasing an improbable target of 326 (anything 300+ was improbable in those days) against England in the NatWest ODI final 2002 at Lord’s. Most of the fans (including myself) had given up.

But, the young pair of Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh had diffirent ideas. Yuvraj fough fire with fire and added a brilliant 69 off 63 balls. He fell before the target but Kaif would take India home in what is termed as India’s greatest ODI victory ever. 

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While Yuvraj soon established himself as a match winner who could play a important innings. But it took him a long time to get his first hundred. 

India were batting first in the VB Tri-series in Sydney. Yuvraj came in to bat at no. 5.  By the time he was finished, he had smashed 139 runs off 122 balls. It was the highest score by an Indian in Australia against Australia in ODIs.

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Six Six Six Six Six Six- There is no doubt that this is the biggest Yuvraj Singh moment ever. 

India were facing England in Durban in an important league encounter at the inaugural World T20 in 2007. Batting first, India were well placed at 159-3 after. Yuvraj Singh has just arrived at the crease and was engaged in a heated confrontation with Andrew Flintoff. Stuart Broad came in to bowl the next over.

Yuvraj spanked all the six balls of the over to literally every corner of the park- the first instance of six sixes being hit in a single over in a T20I match. Yuvraj reached his 50 off a mere 12 balls – the fastest fifty in T20Is – and finished with 58 off 16 balls with seven sixes and three fours.

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Yuvraj Singh was ‘Player of the Series’ when India won the 50-over World Cup in 2011. Yuvraj scoring 362 runs and took 15 wickets in the tournament. One of memories, forever etched out in our brains is a Yuvraj Singh playing a crucial innings of 57 against Australia despite feeling sick. We would learn later that Yuvraj was playing with Cancer. But being fighter he is, Yuvi survived and made a comeback to the Indian side. (Image: PTI File Photo)