{"id":5548,"date":"2012-05-03T03:29:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2012-05-03T03:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:29:03","slug":"punjab-offers-land-to-yuvraj-for-sports-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=5548","title":{"rendered":"Punjab offers land to Yuvraj for sports academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5547\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Yuvraj Singh\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Chandigarh: <\/strong>The Punjab government on Wednesday offered to allot 20 acres of land near Chandigarh to star cricketer Yuvraj Singh for setting up a world-class sports academy.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal made the offer to the cricketer, who is recovering from treatment of a rare germ cell cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Yuvraj Singh, accompanied by his mother, Shabnam Singh, met Badal at his residence on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>After enquiring about his health, Badal wished him a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Badal made the offer for land for a sports academy following a proposal by Yuvraj Singh to impart training to budding players in cricket, hockey, golf and tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister asked his principal secretary to finalize modalities for the allotment of the land. <\/p>\n<p>Yuvraj, who belongs to Chandigarh, had played for the Punjab Ranji team earlier before becoming an international cricketer. He arrived in Chandigarh Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The southpaw, who underwent chemotherapy treatment for the rare cancer in the US earlier this year, was the Man of the Tournament of the 2011 cricket World Cup.<em> (IANS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5547\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Yuvraj Singh\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/yuvraj-singh-land-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Chandigarh: <\/strong>The Punjab government on Wednesday offered to allot 20 acres of land near Chandigarh to star cricketer Yuvraj Singh for setting up a world-class sports academy.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal made the offer to the cricketer, who is recovering from treatment of a rare germ cell cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4204,4203,520],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-parkash-singh-badal","tag-shabnam-singh","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab offers land to Yuvraj for sports academy - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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