Yograj Singh says son Yuvraj Singh and daughter-in-law Hazel Keech left him alone, says, "I am ready to die"

Yograj Singh says son Yuvraj Singh and daughter-in-law Hazel Keech left him alone, says, "I am ready to die"

Yograj Singh has never been the sort of man to hide behind polite silences. Anyone who has followed his career knows he speaks the way he played cricket: blunt, intense and with his whole chest. But his latest interview cuts far deeper than any commentary on bowling actions or coaching philosophy. Father of Yuvraj Singh revealed that he now spends most of his time alone in his hometown, carrying a loneliness that he describes without flinching. He said he has reached a point where he believes he has nothing left to witness or experience.

"I sit alone in the evening, have no one at home. I rely on strangers for food, sometimes one person, sometimes the other. I don’t bother anyone though. Someone or the other gets food for me if I am hungry. I kept house help and cooks, they served and went away," Yograj said in an interview with Vintage Studio.

“I love my mother, kids, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, everyone in the family. But, I don’t ask for anything. I am ready to die. My life is completed, whenever God wants, he can take me with him. I am so thankful to God, I pray and he keeps giving,” he said.

Much of his pain goes back decades. Yograj reflected on his first marriage to Shabnam Kaur, recalling the moment it all fell apart.

“When things came at a point where Yuvi and his mother left me, it gave me the biggest shock. The woman for whom I dedicated my entire life, all of my youth, they can also leave me and go away?” he said.

“A lot of things got destroyed like this. I asked God why all of this was happening when I did everything right by everyone. I might have made some mistakes, but I am an innocent man, didn’t do anything bad to anyone.”

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The marriage eventually dissolved, something Yuvraj himself has admitted was unavoidable because his parents “were always fighting.”

He tried building again. He remarried, had two more children, but they moved to the US. Cricket returned, then slipped away.

“It was God’s play, what was written for me. There was a lot of anger and feeling of revenge. Then cricket came in my life, got discontinued, made Yuvi play cricket, he played and left. Then, I got married again, had two kids, they also left for the US. A few films also released, time passed away and came back to the point where it all started. I was asking myself that I did all of this for what? Do you have anyone with you now? This should have happened with me, happened for good," he said.

Yet even in this bleakness, he continues to pour himself into coaching.

In Punjab, he remains a relentless figure in grassroots cricket, drilling young fast bowlers with the same ferocity he once demanded from himself. Players often credit him with strengthening their basics and their mindset. He still tells them to play with “heart,” a word that seems to hold more meaning than ever for a man who has lost so many pieces of his own along the way.