Cricketer Yuvraj Singh is part of the upper echelons of Indian cricket after a storied career which did not come without its own difficulties, both personal and game-wise. Since retirement, a different side of Yuvraj has been exposed to the media: a fun-loving Punjabi who wants to give back to Indian cricket by mentoring the new generation and also wants to live his life to the fullest. He recently opened up his own restaurant, Koca, and participated in an interview with his mother, Shabnam Singh, to talk about his career, life and everything in between.
In an episode of Curly Tales on YouTube, Shabnam talked extensively about her son’s childhood and his cricket journey and revealed that Yuvraj was quite the menace as a kid.
“He has been extremely mischievous since his childhood, and it has only grown with his age. Everyone is petrified of him because they never know when he’ll make a fool out of them. Once I got a fake call from a police station, and they said, ‘Your son has misbehaved with some girls; please come and bail him out.’ The first person he makes a fool out of is me, and every time I get taken in,” added Shabnam.
She also said that Yuvraj never complained about tough practice schedules or the way his father Yograj Singh wanted him to lead his life, to which Yuvraj added that ‘whoever has briefed my mom about what to say has done a good job.’
The cricketer shed some more light on growing up with a tough father and said, “He was harsh at times, but it was also his dream that I live his dream, which I understood. There were times when I didn’t like it, but I think sometimes you have to do things which you don’t like to understand what you want to achieve. I was pushed a lot, but that is why I started playing for India when I was just 18.”
Talking about his relationship with son orion as opposed to his bond with father Yograj, he said, “With my father, it was always about cricket. I don’t want to be a coach to my kids, I want to be a dad. The things I could not do with my dad, I do it with my son.”
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When asked about his favourite moment from his career, he talked about playing against Australia as a newcomer and scoring 84 and that when he returned to India, both his parents had to come to receive him at the airport even though they were separated; he called it “one of the most amazing moments of my life.”
