2. The Test Of My Life
Presentation By:
Pranay Laad
Presenting To:
Prof. Neha Maheshwari
from cricket to cancer and back
3. About Book :
๏ต The Test of My Life is an autobiography of Yuvraj Singh in which
he describes ups & downs of his career.
๏ต Itโs not just the story of triumphs but one of the biggest setbacks
and his comeback from a Life-Threatning Cancer that could have
ended his career, his life.
๏ต Published by Random House India in year 2013.
๏ต With the help of Sharda Ugra and Nishant Jeet Arora.
5. About Book :
๏ต Yuvraj Singh dedicated this book to his mother Mrs.
Shabnam Singh. Who was with him through the thick and
thin and the worst moments of his life.
๏ต Yuvraj was helped and inspired by Lance Armstrongโs :
โ Itโs Not About The Bikeโ.
๏ต The book contains 6 Chapters.
8. About Central Character & Author:
๏ต D.O.B : 12/12/1981
๏ต Nick Name : Yuvi.
๏ต Father : Mr. Yograj Singh.
๏ต Mother : Mrs. Shabnam Singh.
๏ต Siblings : Zorawar Singh (brother).
๏ต Profession & Passion : Cricket.
๏ต Best Friend : Sandeep Sharma (Sandy).
๏ต {a friend , philosopher and a guide for YUVI }.
9. About Central Character
๏ต Yuvraj likes to live present. He donโt cares about future. As
he knew that there is a huge defect in his lungs still he
played in ICC-WC 2011 .
๏ต Was too funny off or on the field, but when in aggression
then results and records were totally vanishes as we seen
v/s stuart broad.
๏ต He never played for name, fame, records or even for
victory but played with joy, spirit for his father and his
country.
๏ต Unlike other players he likes to have friendship with
players of other nation , he is known for spirit of sports.
12. In The Bookโฆโฆ
๏ต The paining journey starts with the city Indianapolis in U.S.
๏ต It is a situation in which yuvraj is struggling from Cancer.
๏ต The story tells about authorโs life from childhood to year 2012.
13.
14. Chapter :1
All The Way To India
๏ต Yuvi never wanted to be a cricketer.
๏ต He was a Prankster since his childhood .He loves to attend P.T
sessions in school. He loves to play every sport with spirit not
with passion and profession.
๏ต His father made him to play cricket. And was the first coach in
Yuviโs journey of cricket.
๏ต He Won Gold Medal in under-14 state skate tournament.
๏ต After the extreme efforts of his father he became a batsman,
and got selected in state(Ranji), national ,U-19, and finally in
International Indian Cricket team.
15.
16. Chapter :2
The Top of The WC
๏ Now the man was a chief guy for the teams he play for. He became
now an โAllrounderโ.
๏ Yuvi mentioned that Kevin Peterson was one of his old best guy,
who lovingly ,calls Yuvi a Pie-chucker for his elegant bowling action.
๏ He loves to play in banglore.
๏ when someone changes their opinion on a subject all of a sudden
Yuvi says in hindi โyeh topi ghuma raha haiโ.
๏ There was a critical condition and someone said โluck-hard luckโ
,Yuvi replied โluck has nothing to do,we must concentrate on our
skills and our special qualitiesโ.
18. Chapter :3
โCโChange : from Cricket to Cancer
๏ต Indian industrialist Ratan Tata says , and Yuvraj sometimes repeat, โa
promise is a promiseโ, he wants to keep this forever in his life.
๏ต Right from this chapter the man starts to face troubles. He weighted 93
kilos, he was feeling uncomfortable for even running for twos. It was very
difficult for him to exert. his lungs were paining.
๏ต But who knows that the man has been captured by Cancer.
๏ต Yuvi went abroad to loose his weight & became fit for WCs.
๏ต He contributed team to win ICC-2011 & was awarded โMan of the
tournamentโ.
๏ต The celebration begins but only for 14 days. Everything stopped when Dr.
Kohli told him โitโs a malignant tumorโ or can be Cancer.
19.
20. Chapter :4
The Test of My Life
๏ต Now it was the time to leave India and go to Indianapolis in U.S
for defeating cancer.
๏ต Here the man was discovering the 4th โCโ in his life. First
Chandigarh , then Cricketer , then CUP and now itโs Cancer.
๏ต He was handeled by expert doctors of cancer. Dr. Nitesh, Dr.
Einhron, Dr. Harper(Chemotherapy expert, London). And was in
well care of nurse Elizabeth.
๏ต He used to pass the time by watching his own videos of batting
on Youtube . He also made a Prankster friend Paroon.
21.
22. Chapter :5
Taking Guard Again
๏ต He was now in the recovering stage after tolerating
the chemo sessions.
๏ต His friend Sandeep Sharma (sandy) helped Yuvraj too much.
๏ต Now it was the time to get out of the Hospital rooms &
explore the world with Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly, Ishant
sharma , Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid & many of his teammates.
๏ต His Mother prayed for his son in approximately all the Gurudwaras
& Temples of Punjab, to see her boy on Pitch.
24. Statistics
๏ต Batting style : Left hander Middle order batsman.
๏ต Bowling style : Slow left arm orthodox bowler.
๏ต Fielding Position : Short or Silly Short covers.
๏ต Only batsman to score 50 runs in just 12 balls.
๏ต Only batsman to hit 6 sixes in an over.
๏ต Maximum sixes in international cricket by any indian.
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