2011 Cricket World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh announces retirement from international cricket

India's 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh today announced his retirement from international cricket. He announced his retirement in a press conference in Mumbai today.

One of India's greatest limited overs cricketers, Yuvraj has been seriously contemplating retirement from international cricket and pursue a freelance career in ICC approved foreign Twenty20 leagues.

"It's time to say good bye and walk away. It was a beautiful story, but it has come to an end," a visibily emotional Yuvraj said in the press conference.


"It was a love-hate relationship with this game. I can't explain what it really means to me. This game taught me to fight. I have failed more times than I succeeded and I will never give up," he said.



"After 25 years in and around the 22 yards and almost 17 years of international cricket on and off, I have decided to move on. This game taught me how to fight, how to fall, to dust off, to get up again and move forward," Yuvi added.

Yuvraj last played a Test in 2012 and ODI and T20 in 2017.



From being a precocious U-19 talent thrown into the deep end of the pool by Sourav Ganguly in 2000, Yuvraj's career has been one of the most eventful ones with various shades all mixed in a palette one calls life.

Yuvraj, in all these 17 years, has been a bundle of contradictions.



He has been one of India's greatest ever limited-overs exponent yet someone, whose failures as a Test cricketer have managed to baffle all and sundry.

He singlehandedly won a World T20 for India in 2007 in South Africa and then played a 'big role' in losing the 2014 edition in Bangladesh.



He coughed blood, hung around and won India the 2011 World Cup. He even battled a rare germ cell cancer -- a testimony to triumph in life.



He has 8701 runs in 304 ODIs to his credit and 1900 runs from 40 tests.