5 Indian cricketers who were criticized for their off-field lives

#2 Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh is the man whose contribution with the ball and bat helped Team India win the World Cup after 28 long years in 2011. After scoring 362 runs and picking up 15 wickets, Yuvraj was named as the Man of the Tournament.

But the world-class player also became a victim of public criticism when he was briefly linked with Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone.

During India’s tour of Australia in 2008, the two were seen dining together. That was a time when the memory of the six sixes at the 2007 T20 World Cup was still deeply embedded in the minds of the fans.

Yuvraj was the hero to the nation but the disastrous performance in the Test series, which was supposed to establish him in the Indian middle order, was unforgivable for the fans. Many of them readily believed Deepika was a distraction for the man.