I will start training in a week or two: Yuvraj

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Calcutta (The Telegraph): A year back, around this time, Yuvraj Singh was basking in the glory of being the most valuable player in India’s successful World Cup campaign. But since then, things have really been tough for 2011 World Cup’s Player of the Tournament.

The fighter that he is, Yuvraj, who recently returned to the country after undergoing three cycles of chemotherapy in the US for a rare germ cell cancer, says that he is set to start training in a “week or two” in his endeavour to wear the India cap again.

“I’ll start training in a week or two... I definitely want to get back on the field as soon as possible and wear my India cap again,” Yuvraj was quoted as saying in the Indian Premier League’s official website.

He, however, made it clear that he is not in a position to allot a time-frame for his comeback and would take a call depending on the way his body responds to training.

“I can’t really give a time right now, because I’ll have to see how my body responds to the training and the workouts,” he said.

“The doctors haven’t given me any medicine… They said the effect of chemo is completely out of my system. It’s been about five weeks now and I feel stronger day by day,” a rejuvenated Yuvraj added.

Yuvraj, who had led the Sahara Pune Warriors in IPL-IV, said the team will pull through under former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly’s leadership in the ongoing edition.

“He’s (Ganguly) had a lot of experience as a captain for Team India and he’d be the best guy to lead the team at the moment.”

Recollecting the World Cup triumph, and the dip in his personal life thereafter, Yuvraj said that it took him nearly two months to get to terms with the tough phase that he went

through. “Yes, the World Cup was the highest high of my career... And from there to plunge into the lowest phase of life, it was very hard to digest. At first, I didn’t believe it was happening and I was not ready to accept it.

“It took me close to two months to get to terms with the fact and understand what was actually happening to me,” Yuvraj said.

He also said that recovering from a disease like cancer has been his greatest achievement. “As a sportsperson, when you’re not performing, you know you’ll always come back by working hard. But with cancer, you don’t know whether you’ll ever come back. And to be able to beat the disease is my greatest achievement in life.”

Yuvraj said in the future, he wants to help out those who are suffering from the disease.

“I definitely want to do something for the Cancer Society. The plans are there, but everything takes time. Lance Armstrong’s foundation, Livestrong, took a couple of years to generate the kind of money it did.”