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Country, team, self. Country, team, self. Country. Team. Self. Repeat.

This was the mantra Yuvraj Singh lived by throughout the 43 days of the 2011 World Cup.

So, what's the big deal, right? Isn't that what team sport, by its very definition, dictates? Especially when the occasion is as massive as the World Cup, the stage erected in front of adoring, admiring, unforgiving home fans for whom tryst with history was a mere formality?

The 'big deal' lay in the unflinching fight Yuvraj launched against his ailing, protesting body. The fight wasn't against the aches and pains commonplace in professional sport. It wasn't against a visible injury that would heal with aggressive treatment and rigorous rehabilitation. As subsequent tests would confirm, it had been a fight with cancer. And what a fight it was, too.

Even today, nine years after the most painful and yet pleasurable chapter of his cricketing life, the emotions come flooding back as Yuvraj reflects on that incredulous, yet all-too-real journey.

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