A stylish left hander born on 12th December 1981, he came to the light with a superb knock of 85 runs of just 82 balls in his second ODI against quality Australian bowling attack in the 2000 ICC Champions Trophy.

Early Life:

He was born on 12th of December 1981 at Chandigarh to Yograj Singh, a former Indian Fast Bowler and Punjabi Movie Star. Yuvraj began playing Cricket at quite an early age, and as the Captain of the Under-19 Cricket team of Punjab in the final match of Cooch-Behar Trophy 1999-2000, scored 358 runs against Bihar Under-19 Cricket team. After this, he was also a part of the Under-19 National Cricket team that participated in Under-19 World Cup Cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka in January 2000. Mohammed Kaif was the Captain of the Indian team, which eventually won the championship.

Oneday and test debut:

Yuvraj Singh made his debut in the One Day International (ODI) Cricket with a match against Kenya played on 3rd of October 2000 at Nairobi. Although he didn’t get a chance to bat in the match, he took no wicket and gave away 16 runs in the match. In his next ODI match against Australia just 4 days after the debutante one, Yuvraj showed his batting prowess by scoring 84 runs off just 80 balls. He began his Test Cricket career with a match against New Zealand played on 16th of October 2003 at Mohali. He scored 25 runs in the match, including 3 Fours and 1 Six.

Twenty-20 career:

On 19 September 2007 against England in the ICC World Twenty20 Super 8 match held at Kingsmead in Durban, he hit 6 'SIXES' in an over up against Stuart Broad. This helped him to reach the fastest fifty ever in Twenty20 game, off just 12 balls and also the fastest in any form of international cricket

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.

The Pune Warriors were a new team introduced for the 2011 IPL. Yuvraj Singh was bought by the team and chosen as captain. Pune Warriors finished ninth, ahead of only the Delhi Daredevils From 14 matches, Yuvraj scored 343 runs at an average of 34.30, including two half-centuries.

Acheivments:

Basically Yuvraj is a Left Handed batsman and often he bowls as a Left Arm Orthodox Spinner. He is considered to fare better as a batsman facing Spin Bowlers in comparison to Fast Bowlers. Yuvraj is also said to be one of the efficient fielders the Indian Cricket team has got, and according to a study he was the 4th ranked fielder in the world in terms of having maximum number of effected run-outs in One Day International (ODI) Cricket matches between 1999 and 2005. In the 131 ODI matches he played during the tenure, Yuvraj as a fielder made 21 run-outs possible.

His suffering from cancer:

Yuvraj had declared himself unavailable for the one-day series against the West Indies and was also not picked for the Test series in Australia.

Yuvraj has been troubled by health issues since the World Cup, which India won, and has played just one Test match in England after that.

Just a few weeks after winning the World Cup, its man of the tournament - Yuvraj Singh - was diagnosed with 'lung cancer'.

Shabnam Singh his mother told "He was coughing and vomiting all through the tournament. But we thought it was just the stress, and his desire to excel on the biggest stage... so we ignored it".

she added"Yuvraj is also very touched by the love and encouragement he has received from his team mates, who also knew about his problem and were very caring".

The 30-year-old left-hander has been in US since Jan-26-2012, being treated for what was earlier claimed to be a tumour in the lungs by his family.

His physiotherapist Jatin Chaudhary told "He is suffering from cancer and this is the first stage. It's curable and he will be fit to play in May. He will be back on the field very soon".

Person data:

Full Name          :Yuvraj Singh
Born                  :12th December, 1981, Chandigarh, Mohali
Nickname          :Yuvi
Height               :6ft 2 inch
Batting Style     :Left-hand bat
Bowling Style    :Slow left-arm orthodox
Test Debut       :16th October 2003 v New Zealand
ODI Debut        :3rd October 2000 v Kenya
T20I Debut       :13th September 2007 v Scotland.

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy was born on 8-07-1949, to Y S Raja Reddy in Pulivendula, Kadapa Dist, AP. He is popularly known as YSR. He was Twice Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He is seen as the one of the most popular Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh due to various welfare schemes and development programs he took up for the people of his state. In the words of Yahoo 'YSR was a mass leader who ruled the hearts of people in Andhra Pradesh'. The BBC has called him a champion of social welfare schemes.

Reddy was married to Vijaya Lakshmi. They have a son Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, and a Daughter Sharmila. Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a famous young dyanamic politician who later resigned for Indian National Congress and formed his own political party named Y.S.R Congress, after the Death of YSR, (Yuvajana Sramika Raithu) and successfully contested and won the Kadapa Lok Sabha by-election with a record 5 lakh plus majority.

Reddy's parents were devout Christians and he was buried according to Christian rites. He had also visited Bethlehem and other historically important Christian places in Israel twice. Although Reddy was a third generation Telugu Christian, he used to have “darshan” of Hindu deity Lord Venkateswara. He regularly visited the central temple of the god at Tirupati.

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. The hospital by his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. His family also built and ran a degree college and a polytechnic college at Pulivendula which was later handed over to the Loyola Group of Educational Institutions. Another junior college at Simhadripuram, a small town in the vicinity of Pulivendula, is run by his family. He never lost an election through out his political career of 30 years. he is only congress chief minister completed his early(2004–2009)tenure without any interruption.

He is popularly believed to be the most powerful leader of the Indian National Congress from the State of Andhra Pradesh. He was loved dearly by his friends and justly feared by his enemies. His popularity with the masses and his meteoric rise to power earned him many enemies during his political career. However, when he was elected as the 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh he is believed to have been generous with even his most staunch enemies. This earned him even more popularity. He returned to power for a second successive term riding on populist schemes aimed at the largest and most influential and powerful sections of the electorate. Many believe that if he was alive, he would have been the first person to win a third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of the state.

His tenure also saw significant weakening of the violent extremist left-wing Naxalite movement that was rampant in the state when he assumed office in 2004. The movement was so intense that the former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's car was blasted by them in October 2003. A major reason for the weakening of the Naxalite movement is either due to negotiations which resulted in their surrender, for the schemes offered by Mr. Reddy's Government, or due to the increase in number of police checkposts and intelligence. He is the one of the most popular chief ministers in India. During his era Andhra Pradesh achieved a growth rate of more than 6% every year and reduced its poverty to 16% compared to 23 percent for India.

Jala Yagnam to irrigate 1,00,00,000 acres of land through construction of major, medium and minor irrigation projects. This made Andhra Pradesh take big strides in areas of Sustainable Agriculture by introducing as wastelands will be cultivable.

Reddy's major campaign slogan for the 2009 election was "Development and the credibility". He was seeking a mandate on his performance in his previous tenure. He did not promise any new schemes before the election and only promised continuation and minor extensions to the ongoing schemes. The opposition parties had formed a 'Grand alliance' (mahakootami) comprising of the major opposition party – the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the communist parties. The TDP had promised numerous freebies including free color televisions and the unique cash transfer scheme (CTS) . There was also a new party PRP floated by a popular film star Chiranjeevi. Under his leadership congress came into power for the second time.

In the elections, Reddy's party (INC) surpassed the required majority in the assembly (148 seats) by winning 156 seats. It also bagged 33 seats in parliament out of 42 seats. This was seen as a very big victory for Reddy since he was able to come back to power for the second consecutive term against the odds of anti-incumbency and an almost unified opposition.He became the Congress party’s first chief minister since 1969, that is, in four decades, to be able to seek votes in  
his own name, and win.    
                      
Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister for the term of 2009–2014 on 20 May 2009. The ceremony was held in Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium and attended by a crowd of around 20,000 people. He is the only CM of Andhra Pradesh to come back to power after serving a full 5 year term.

The surrender of more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) by Reddy to the government during his own term in December 2006 was criticized by the opposition parties who demanded resignation from his post. Naidu also called for Reddy's resignation after a 2007 Khammam police shooting resulted in eight deaths.

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's Bell 430 helicopter went missing on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 at 9:35 am. Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 10:02 am while it was passing through the dense Nallamala forest area. The Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, P. Ramakanth Reddy, said that inclement weather had forced the helicopter off-course. Although the sparsely populated forest area is considered to be stronghold of the outlawed Naxal communist insurgents, the National Security Advisor of India ruled out the possibility of the Naxals bringing down the helicopter.

The Indian Prime Minister's Office confirmed the helicopter's crash on the morning of 3 September and the death of all aboard, including Reddy, his special secretary P. Subrahmanyam, chief security officer A. S. C. Wesley, Group Captain S. K. Bhatia and Captain M. S. Reddy . The Director General of Police said that the bodies of Reddy and others were charred beyond recognition and had to be identified on the basis of clothing. The autopsy of all the bodies was carried out at Kurnool Medical College.

An investigation eventually concluded that the factors that caused that crash included the fact that the crew became fixated for more than six minutes in trying to find out what was behind a problem with their transmission oil pressure system, and they became distracted from the worsening weather. It was also noted that the pilots of the helicopter never discussed the bad weather, diverting, or returning to base.

Reddy's body was buried on 4 September at Idupulapai in Kadapa district with full state honors in accordance with Christian rites.

Then Finance Minister Konijeti Rosaiah was sworn in as Chief Minister following his death. The media reported that many people died of shock after hearing of Reddy's death (either due to heart attack or by committing suicide) and stated that this is first of its kind for any politician. The figure is said to be between 700 to 800 deaths by various media sources.

He was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Lok Sabha from the Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for five terms from the Pulivendula constituency. At the time of his death, he held the record of not losing any election throughout his political career. In 2003 he undertook a three-month-long paadayatra, or walking tour of 1475 km in hot summer, across several districts in Andhra Pradesh to get into power. He led his party to victory in the next general and assembly elections held in 2004 and also the next election in 2009. He is the only chief minister of AP to have come back to power after being in office for a full term.

-Positions held by YSR:

* Minister of state for rural development (1980–82).
* Excise minister (1982).
* Education minister (1982–83).
* Leader of Opposition, Andhra Pradesh State Assembly (1999–2004).
* Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (2004–2009).
* Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (20-May-2009 To 02-Sep-2009).

-Welfare Schemes undertaken by the Government of Andhra Pradesh during YSR Tenure:

* Providing free electricity as promised for farmers was initiated from the very   
   first day of his tenure as CM in 2004.
* Rajiv Arogya Shree – A health insurance for rural people having white card  
   (people identified by government as below poverty line), where the government 
   pays the   entire price of any surgery up to 200,000 rupee.
* Emergency service(consisting of 108 & 104)- Free Ambulance service for all the
   public, though this was started by Satyam later adopted by government of A.P
* Pavala Vaddi — a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to
   encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship
   primarily   targeted at rural women.
* Indiramma illu — a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by
   charging a small amount and the government spends the remaining amount.
* Rs 2/KG of rice scheme.
* Increase in the minimum support price for rice.
* Reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for
   minorities were also implemented.
* Food security, Access to credit and other social aspects during his tenure as  
   chief minister were also implemented Apart from these schemes, his 
   government  stood as   the role model in implementing the central governments 
   flagship program – the NREGA. The main emphasis during his tenure was on
   social welfare with a majority of his   schemes targeting in improving the
   livelihood of the rural masses. The BBC has called him a champion of social
   welfare schemes.
* Extremist Naxalite movement in the state of AP had been reduced significantly,
   primarily due to the lack of support from rural masses as his governments 
   welfare   programs reached them.

-PERSON DATA:

Name                 :Rajasekhara Reddy, Y.S.
                           14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Date of birth      :8 July 1949
Place of birth     :Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh
Date of death    :2 September 2009
Place of death   :Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool
                           Andhra Pradesh, India
Preceded by      :N. Chandrababu Naidu
Succeeded by    :Konijeti Rosaiah
Constituency     :Pulivendula
Political party    :Indian National Congress
Spouse(s)         :Y.S. Vijayalakshmi
Children            :Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy(founder of ysr congress party)
                          Sharmila
Religion             :Church of South India (Anglican).