Yuvraj Singh is the author's favorite cricket player. Yuvraj was born in 1981 in India and showed an early talent for sports like tennis and roller skating. His father encouraged him to focus on cricket, and he went on to have an illustrious career as a left-handed batsman and bowler for the Indian national team. Some of Yuvraj's accomplishments include scoring his first ODI century at age 19, hitting 6 sixes in an over in international T20 cricket, and being named player of the tournament at the 2011 Cricket World Cup which India won. Yuvraj is known for his aggressive batting style and has received several national honors for his cricket achievements.

1. MY FAVORITE CRICKET PLAYER
YUVRAJ SINGH
by
M.BALA MANIKANDAN

2. •Yuvraj Singh
 Yuvraj singh was born 12 December 1981
 his parents are Yograj Singh and Shabnam Singh
 Tennis and roller skating were Yuvraj's favorite
sports during his childhood and he was quite
good at both.
 He had also won the National U-14 Roller Skating
Championship
 His father threw away the medal and told him to
forget skating and concentrate on cricket
 Yuvraj is a left-hand middle-order batsman and a
slow left-arm orthodox bowler.

3. Early career
 Yuvraj Singh broke into the Punjab Under-16s
at the age of 13 years and 11 months in
November of the 1995–96 season against
Jammu and Kashmir
 Yuvraj Singh made his first-class debut in
late-1997 against Orissa during the 1997/98
Ranji Trophy season.
 Yuvraj's all-round performance earned him
the Player of the Tournament and a call to the
national squad

4. International career
 He has been a member of the Indian cricket team in
ODIs since 2000
 He made his debut against Kenya in the prequarterfinal
 He scored a crucial 98* against Sri Lanka in the fifth
match in an otherwise disappointing series with the
bat
 He was the vice-captain of the ODI team from late2007 to late-2008.
 He was get 13 ODI centuries and highest for 139
against Australia

5. Twenty20 career
 On 19 September 2007 against England in the
inaugural ICC World Twenty20 Super 8 match
held at Kingsmead in Durban
 he hit 6 Sixes in an over off Stuart Broad.
 This helped him to reach the fastest fifty ever in
a 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

6.  He is also the first Indian player to cross 100
Sixes in Twenty 20 matches.
 Yuvraj also scored 70 runs off 30 balls and
went on to claim the Man of the Match
against Australia in the World Twenty20
semifinals at Durban
 He has also hit the longest six of the
tournament: 119 metres (390 ft) off Australian
bowler Brett Lee

7. Style of Play
 Yuvraj is primarily a left-handed batsman but can
bowl part-time left-arm orthodox spin, which he
improved in the latter part of his career
 Yuvraj is a natural strokeplayer with an
aggressive style of play, as seen by his strike rate
of above 150 in T20 internationals & just below
90 in ODIs
 The Board of Control for Cricket in India
nominated Yuvraj Singh for the Arjuna
Award, after his man of the series performance
in the 2011 World Cup

8. Indian Premier League
 He was the icon player and captain for Indian
Premier League (IPL) team Kings XI Punjab in
the first two seasons; in 2010, the third
season
 He dismissed Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher
and Jacques Kallis. On 17 May 2009, Yuvraj
picked up his second Twenty20 hat-trick
against Deccan Chargers
 Yuvraj was bought by the Royal Challengers
Bangalore for a whopping 14 crore

9. conclusion
 He was conferred with Arjuna Award, Padma
Shri, India's second highest sporting award in
the year 2012 by the President Pranab
Mukherjee.
 he was conferred with India's 4th highest
civilian honour, Padma Shri.

10. THANK YOU