http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234 advises Yuvraj to take care of his health first – Cricket News Update
Legendary India all-rounder and the 1983 world cup winning captain, Kapil Dev, on Friday advised the comeback man http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 to take care of his health first and then focus on his game.
Yuvraj Singh, playing his first Test since recovering from the lung cancer, which was diagnosed late last year, played a fluent knock of 74 runs, sharing a key 130-run stand with double centurion http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737.
Yuvraj’s impressive 74-run knock was preceded by a double century in a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 A.
However, Kapil felt that the talented all-rounder should primarily focus on his health. "He is one of the finest cricketers and he has a long way to go but he must look after his health first and then he can go on playing," Kapil said on the sidelines of the 'HT Leadership Summit'.
Yuvraj Singh was last year diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer. He underwent chemotherapy for the cancerous tumour in the United States of America earlier this year and returned home in April, after successfully battling the rare form of germ-cell cancer.
The veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in Ahmedabad is veteran Southpaw’s first five-day game since recovering from the disease.
Another former captain of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ajaysinhji-Daulatsinhji-Jadeja-c42450 also lauded Yuvraj’s courage to fight back cancer and the eagerness to get back to all the three forms of the game. Asked if the left-hander can sustain this kind of form for long, Jadeja remained noncommittal.
"Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain. You play as long as you are good enough and Yuvraj himself will say whether he is good enough to sustain for whatever number of years,” said the 41-year-old former Indian cricketer.
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