The 2011 World Cup campaign was one of the most inspiring runs for Team India, putting in sensational performances throughout the tournament. India went all the way after they defeated Sri Lanka in one of the iconic finishes to a cricket game.
Speaking of the same, veteran Indian all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin came forward and opined that nobody knew that Yuvraj Singh was suffering from a serious illness.
“Yuvi used to cough, and he used to cough vehemently. I used to think that it is the pressure of the game and he is coughing it off and he used to cough in the middle. Literally, nobody had any idea, at least from the junior segment of the team that he was suffering from a serious illness,” Ravichandran Ashwin said in a video on his YouTube channel.
“When it broke out, I was shocked because I did not expect somebody who had just become Player of the series, in fact like I would say, ‘Bharat ka Icon’. That literally was it. I think Sachin Tendulkar played an unbelievably big role in that Yuvraj Singh’s World Cup. I call it the Yuvraj Singh’s World Cup because you name it, he was there in that situation in the centre,” Ashwin added
