NEW DELHI, April 9 (Reuters) – Yuvraj Singh has arrived home
in India after cancer treatment in United States and doctors are
confident the player will not suffer a relapse, his national
cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday.
The 30-year-old was told last year that he had a golf
ball-sized non-malignant tumour but that diagnosis was changed
in February to a cancerous condition called “mediastinal
seminoma”.
“After finishing his treatment (in the U.S.) in mid-March,
Yuvraj spent a few days in London recuperating from the
side-effects of chemotherapy,” the BCCI said on its website
(www.bcci.tv).
“Yuvraj’s doctors were happy with his reaction to the
treatment and were confident he wouldn’t suffer a relapse.”
One of the cleanest strikers of a cricket ball, the
middle-order batsman is not a regular member of India’s test
team but is an automatic choice in their limited-over sides.
Yuvraj was instrumental in India’s 2007 World Twenty20 title
triumph in South Africa and hit England fast bowler Stuart Broad
for six sixes in an over in one match.
He was also named player of the tournament in India’s
successful 50-over World Cup campaign on home soil last year.
(Writing by Tony Jimenez in London, editing by Dave Thompson)
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