Nice message from Stuart Broad on Yuvaraj Singh's retirement; International cricket has brought friendship and respect among cricket lovers from various countries
Great to see English cricketer Stuart Broad say "Enjoy retirement Legend @yuvisofficial 🙌🏻 🏏" to Indian cricketer Yuvaraj Singh on his retirement
Stuart Broad said this here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByhoxAplvDc/?utm_source=ig_embed on 10th June 2019
Here's a small clip of Yuvaraj Singh's retirement announcement: Yuvraj Singh announces retirement from International cricket, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZLSXyKAtjU, 1 min. 24 secs, published on 10th June 2019 by Hindustan Times.
I think it is really great to see such friendship between rival Indian and English cricketers. Yuvaraj Singh and Broad are famous in Indian cricket history for one over of Stuart Broad in the inaugural T20 World Cup on 19th Sept. 2007 in Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa (Match scorecard: http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8604/scorecard/287873/england-vs-india-21st-match-group-e-icc-world-twenty20-2007-08).
Yuvaraj smashed six sixes of six balls of that over. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZAGg9ZRM-I, 6 min. 5 secs. The commentators' awe at his feat is enjoyable!
Absolutely unforgettable feat in international cricket!
And now in 2019 we have Stuart Broad calling Yuvaraj Singh a legend and wishing him an enjoyable retirement! I think that shows the greatness of the cricket sport in bringing people together from different countries. In this case, England along with other parts of Britain had ruled over India as a whole for around a century and a quarter! [In my view, British rule over whole of India was from 1818 to 1947 (when India got freedom from British rule) as it was in 1818 that the Brtish decisively defeated the last great native power of India then, the Marathas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Maratha_War.]
So international cricket bringing friendship and respect between cricketers (and cricket fans) from England and India, as this example of Stuart Broad and Yuvaraj Singh shows, is one of the great positive, social well being achievements of international cricket.
An edited version of an extract from my blog post of 2016: http://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2016/04/c-srinivas-quite-respected-figure-in.html, is given below:
Sachin Tendulkar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar, coming on stage on Swami [Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba] 80th birthday (on 23rd Nov. 2005) was a very big thing. If I recall correctly, Yuvaraj Singh and some others of the Indian cricket team also had come. I was seated then along with some teachers & doctors in one enclosure, and saw these cricketers from up close as they were brought in and seated some distance from me (perhaps around 20 feet) in the same enclosure.
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If I recall correctly, at that Swami birthday event, I saw Yuvaraj Singh joking and being very (physically) energetic. I mean, that's the key recollection of mine from seeing him from quite close then - a man of great physical energy.
I thank Yuvaraj Singh for the zest, energy and commitment with which he played for India in international cricket, and his awesome feats in that sport like the six sixes in one over feat mentioned above, that brought great joy to me and many, many other Indian as well as other countries' cricket fans. I pray that he enjoys his retirement and is able to contribute to well being in Indian society and elsewhere in the world, through his work including his support for patients of cancer (which he himself recovered from). Here's his website about his work to combat cancer: https://www.youwecan.org/.
Stuart Broad said this here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByhoxAplvDc/?utm_source=ig_embed on 10th June 2019
Here's a small clip of Yuvaraj Singh's retirement announcement: Yuvraj Singh announces retirement from International cricket, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZLSXyKAtjU, 1 min. 24 secs, published on 10th June 2019 by Hindustan Times.
I think it is really great to see such friendship between rival Indian and English cricketers. Yuvaraj Singh and Broad are famous in Indian cricket history for one over of Stuart Broad in the inaugural T20 World Cup on 19th Sept. 2007 in Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa (Match scorecard: http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8604/scorecard/287873/england-vs-india-21st-match-group-e-icc-world-twenty20-2007-08).
Yuvaraj smashed six sixes of six balls of that over. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZAGg9ZRM-I, 6 min. 5 secs. The commentators' awe at his feat is enjoyable!
Absolutely unforgettable feat in international cricket!
And now in 2019 we have Stuart Broad calling Yuvaraj Singh a legend and wishing him an enjoyable retirement! I think that shows the greatness of the cricket sport in bringing people together from different countries. In this case, England along with other parts of Britain had ruled over India as a whole for around a century and a quarter! [In my view, British rule over whole of India was from 1818 to 1947 (when India got freedom from British rule) as it was in 1818 that the Brtish decisively defeated the last great native power of India then, the Marathas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Maratha_War.]
So international cricket bringing friendship and respect between cricketers (and cricket fans) from England and India, as this example of Stuart Broad and Yuvaraj Singh shows, is one of the great positive, social well being achievements of international cricket.
An edited version of an extract from my blog post of 2016: http://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2016/04/c-srinivas-quite-respected-figure-in.html, is given below:
Sachin Tendulkar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar, coming on stage on Swami [Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba] 80th birthday (on 23rd Nov. 2005) was a very big thing. If I recall correctly, Yuvaraj Singh and some others of the Indian cricket team also had come. I was seated then along with some teachers & doctors in one enclosure, and saw these cricketers from up close as they were brought in and seated some distance from me (perhaps around 20 feet) in the same enclosure.
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If I recall correctly, at that Swami birthday event, I saw Yuvaraj Singh joking and being very (physically) energetic. I mean, that's the key recollection of mine from seeing him from quite close then - a man of great physical energy.
I thank Yuvaraj Singh for the zest, energy and commitment with which he played for India in international cricket, and his awesome feats in that sport like the six sixes in one over feat mentioned above, that brought great joy to me and many, many other Indian as well as other countries' cricket fans. I pray that he enjoys his retirement and is able to contribute to well being in Indian society and elsewhere in the world, through his work including his support for patients of cancer (which he himself recovered from). Here's his website about his work to combat cancer: https://www.youwecan.org/.
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