{"id":8258,"date":"2012-07-07T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2012-07-07T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T09:26:40","slug":"yuvraj-honored-to-be-nominated-for-arjuna-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8258","title":{"rendered":"Yuvraj honored to be nominated for Arjuna Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: Star Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh who is recuperating from a rare germ cell cancer feels honored to have been nominated for the prestigious Arjuna Award and is hoping that he wins the award since it the second time that he has been nominated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter of great honor for me that BCCI has nominated my name for the award. It is the second time that I have been nominated and hope that I get lucky enough this time to get,\u201d Yuvraj told the reporters here at the launch ceremony of the \u2018YouWeCan\u2019 an initiative started by the Yuvraj Singh Foundation with an aim to combat cancer by spreading awareness about cancer detection.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally the deadline for the nomination ended on April 30 but then the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs have extended the last date to July 20th after there was an alleged miscommunication and BCCI failed to file their nomination. The ministry has extended the deadline so that they could accommodate the cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>Yuvraj has been very instrumental for India\u2019s success in international cricket over the recent past and is tipped to win the award.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhury <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Star Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh who is recuperating from a rare germ cell cancer feels honored to have been nominated for the prestigious Arjuna Award and is hoping that he wins the award since it the second time that he has been nominated. \u201cIt is a matter of great honor for me that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1324,705,542,520],"class_list":["post-8258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-arjuna-award","tag-bcci","tag-virat-kohli","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yuvraj honored to be nominated for Arjuna Award - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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