Six sixes. Then the hardest fight of his life.
His Jupiter era — the generous one — ran from 1996 to March 2012. Debut, six sixes, a World Cup, Player of the Tournament. Then it ended. Within weeks of that high he faced a cancer diagnosis and stepped away from the game.
Player of the Tournament. Then the longest year of his life.
The line is his standing in Indian cricket. The bar underneath is which planet was running his life — Vedic astrology hands a life to one planet at a time, in a fixed order, for fixed lengths.
Eighteen, and completely unbothered.
- Second international match, ICC KnockOut in Nairobi, against the best attack in the world.
- He batted like a man who hadn't been told who they were.
One over. Thirty-six runs. Total silence after.
- By his own account Andrew Flintoff had just said something to him. Broad paid for it.
- Still the most replayed clip in Indian cricket. India went on to win the first World T20.
Player of the Tournament in a World Cup India won.
- Four man-of-the-match awards in one tournament. He was, briefly, the best cricketer in the world.
- He was also carrying something far heavier than form through those matches, and told no one.
Eleven runs off twenty-one balls.
- The World T20 final against Sri Lanka. He couldn't get the ball away and India lost.
- A crowd gathered outside his house and threw rocks at it. Some accused him of taking money. He said later he had been low on confidence and had been trying to get out.
- Two years earlier he had been fighting for his life.
Written off again. Scored 150 anyway.
- Recalled at 35 after everyone had moved on, and made his highest one-day score.
- Retired in 2019 with a World Cup, a World T20, and the hardest comeback in Indian cricket behind him.
One honest note: his birth time is recorded as noon at PGI Chandigarh, which is a suspiciously round number. We checked — every fact on this page holds anywhere between 9am and 3pm, so the uncertainty doesn't touch anything we've claimed. More in Lesson 06.
Everything you're actually here for
He's remembered as the comeback story. The years around it were uglier than the highlight reel suggests. All public record.
2014 World T20 final, Dhaka. He made 11 off 21 balls in a chase India lost by six wickets.
A crowd gathered outside his Chandigarh home and pelted it with stones. Some in the crowd accused him of having taken money to underperform. No evidence was ever produced and no charge was ever brought. He said afterwards he had been very low on confidence and had actually been trying to get himself out.
Two years into Saturn. Saturn is the planet of public weight — being made to carry something slowly, in front of everyone.
It's also the stretch that follows Jupiter, which is why it always feels like a punishment. It isn't. It's just the next one.
The 2015 IPL auction. Delhi Daredevils paid ₹16 crore for him — the most expensive player in the tournament's history at that point.
He scored 248 runs that season. The price became a punchline, and it followed him through the rest of his franchise career.
Venus sits in Capricorn with Ketu. Venus is money and valuation; Capricorn is the sign that asks whether you've actually earned it.
Astrology doesn't set auction prices. But "valued highly, then audited" is a fair description of the placement.
Yograj Singh, a former India cricketer himself, has spoken repeatedly and publicly about how hard he pushed his son — and has given a long run of interviews attacking selectors, teammates and captains on Yuvraj's behalf.
Yuvraj has described a childhood built entirely around his father's ambition, including being made to give up the sport he actually preferred, which was roller skating.
His Rahu stretch covers his entire childhood, to 1996. Rahu is hunger that doesn't originate with you — appetite you inherit and then carry.
The Sun, which stands for the father, sits in Scorpio: intense, controlling, hard to argue with.
From 2012 onward he was in and out of the side constantly — never quite finished, never quite trusted. He played his last international in 2017 and only retired formally in 2019.
He has said openly that he felt he was never given a clean run after his return, and that the uncertainty was the hardest part of the whole decade.
Textbook Saturn: delay, not denial. Saturn rarely closes a door. It leaves it open just far enough that you keep walking back to it.
He was written off. He came back.
Player of the Tournament to a year away from everything
- Not long after the 2011 World Cup he had just been the best player in, he stepped away from the game entirely.
- He spent close to a year away, most of it out of the country and out of public view.
- He was back in the India squad inside about a year, played the 2012 World T20, and won a man-of-the-match award in it.
- He started the YouWeCan foundation the same year.
🔭 The chart bit: the Jupiter stretch closes in March 2012 and Saturn opens. Saturn is endurance — the capacity to keep going at reduced power for a long time. We are describing the timing of documented events. We are not suggesting the chart caused any of them, and nobody should.
Recalled at 35, and made his highest ODI score
- By 2017 he had been written off for the second time. He was picked again almost as a courtesy.
- He made 150 off 127 against England at Cuttack — the best one-day innings of his career, eight years after his peak.
- He retired in 2019 with a World Cup, a World T20 and a fight won.
🔭 The chart bit: five years into Saturn. Saturn rewards late, and only for time actually served.
Four eras. Four receipts.
Most celebrity kundlis lead with a planet in a flashy sign. Yuvraj doesn't have one, so we're doing this the honest way — by era, which is where his story actually lives.
1981 – 1996
Appetite he didn't choose
- Rahu is hunger — usually hunger that came from somewhere else and got handed to you.
- A father who had played for India and was determined his son would go further. A childhood organised entirely around that.
- He wanted to be a roller skater. He has a national-level medal for it. That got shut down.
1996 – Mar 2012
Sixteen years of getting away with it
- Jupiter is expansion and good fortune — more room than you've strictly earned.
- Debut at 18 against Australia. Six sixes at 25. World Cup Player of the Tournament at 29.
- Every single thing he is remembered for happened inside this one stretch.
Mar 2012 – 2031
Everything after, the hard way
- Saturn is endurance, delay and public weight. It gives, but late and only against time served.
- A year away. A comeback inside another. The 2014 final and the rocks. Recalled, dropped, recalled.
- The 150 at Cuttack in 2017 is a Saturn reward — arriving eight years after it would have been convenient.
the storm star
Born under the storm
- The Moon runs mood and inner weather. His sits in Gemini, in a slice of sky called Ardra.
- Ardra's symbol is a teardrop and its theme is the storm that clears the air — upheaval that leaves something cleaner behind.
- It's also the placement that decides his entire era sequence. Everything on this page traces back to this one point.
Beyond the cricket
National-level skater
He won a national roller-skating medal as a kid. His father made him drop it for cricket and reportedly threw the medal away.
Rahu era. Somebody else's appetite.He was a child actor
He appeared in two Punjabi films as a kid, before the cricket took over completely.
Jupiter era beginning — doors opening early.YouWeCan
Founded in 2012, in the hardest year of his life. It has supported people across India ever since.
Saturn: build something out of the weight.Two World Cups
2007 World T20 and 2011 World Cup. He is one of a small group who won both, and was central to each.
Both inside the Jupiter stretch.The kundli people look for next
Two searches follow this page around. The first is his wife, Hazel Keech — people arrive here wanting a compatibility read, because Vedic astrology has a 36-point guna Milan system built for exactly that. The second is the dressing room he actually won things in: Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli were all on the field with him in 2011, and all three of those charts are already built.
What we won't do is put a number on a Hazel Keech match. Her birth details aren't public at anything close to the confidence his are, and a guna Milan score built on a guessed chart is just a guess with a decimal point. Same reason there's no rising sign anywhere on this page — when we don't have it, we say so instead of filling the gap.
The chart, raw
His janam kundli, computed from his birth date and place with the same engine behind our paid reports. Signs only — Lesson 06 explains why.
Look at it and notice what isn't there. No star ratings, no red flags, nothing at either extreme. If you handed this chart to an astrologer with the name removed, nobody would predict six sixes or a World Cup. That's worth knowing about how much a chart can actually tell you.
Astrology, but make it make sense
Zero background needed. Read this once and you can decode the chart above yourself — no astrologer required.
What a birth chart even is
It's a photo of the sky from the exact spot and second you were born. Where each planet was sitting, frozen.
Vedic astrology says that snapshot describes the raw material you were handed — not your fate, your starting kit.
The planets, and what each one does
Nine of them. Think of them as nine departments, each running one part of a life.
| Planet | Runs | Where his is |
|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ego, authority, the father | Scorpio |
| ☾ Moon | mind, mood, instinct | Gemini ◆ Ardra |
| ♂ Mars | drive, aggression, courage | Virgo |
| ☿ Mercury | speech, logic, paperwork | Scorpio |
| ♃ Jupiter | growth, luck, judgement | Libra |
| ♀ Venus | money, charm, value | Capricorn |
| ♄ Saturn | patience, grind, delays | Virgo |
| ☊ Rahu | hunger, obsession | Cancer |
| ☋ Ketu | letting go, detachment | Capricorn |
Why "which sign" actually matters — and when it doesn't
Every planet has signs where it's comfortable and signs where it struggles.
- Exalted — its best possible sign, running at full power.
- Debilitated — its worst. Still works, just badly.
- Own sign — home ground. Comfortable and reliable.
Dashas — why timing is the whole game
This is the part most people have never heard of, and for Yuvraj it is the only part that matters.
Your life is split into long stretches, and each one is run by a single planet. The order is fixed, the lengths are fixed, and which one you start with is decided entirely by where the Moon was when you were born. The technical name is dasha.
Rahu from birth to early 1996 · Jupiter 1996 to March 2012 · Saturn from March 2012
Now put the life next to it. Everything he is famous for sits inside Jupiter. The setbacks, the backlash and the long grind all sit inside Saturn. The handover is March 2012.
Sub-periods — the chapters inside the chapter
A sixteen-year stretch is too blunt to be useful, so each one splits again into sub-periods, each handed to a different planet. That's how astrologers get from "this decade" to "this year".
What we genuinely can't tell you
Here's where most celebrity astrology sites quietly cheat.
A chart has two halves. The signs, which we have and which barely move across a day. And the houses, which need the exact minute, because the rising sign changes about every two hours.
His time is recorded as noon at PGI Chandigarh. We tested every claim on this page across a six-hour window — 9am to 3pm — and all of them hold. His Moon stays in Gemini, stays in Ardra, and the era sequence doesn't move.
So — is Yuvraj Singh manglik?
The most-asked astrology question about almost any famous Indian, and the honest answer is unsatisfying.
Manglik status depends entirely on which house Mars occupies — 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th. Houses need the birth minute. His isn't confirmed.
How to actually read that chart square
The grid earlier on this page is a South-Indian chart, and it's the easiest of the three styles to learn because the signs never move.
Twelve boxes around the edge, one per zodiac sign, always in the same places. Pisces top-left, then clockwise: Aries, Taurus, Gemini down the right, and so on. Memorise the ring once and you can read any South-Indian chart for the rest of your life.
The planet symbols get written into whichever box they were in. That's the whole trick — a chart is just nine symbols dropped into twelve fixed boxes.
Aspects — planets shouting across the chart
A planet doesn't only affect the box it sits in. It also throws its influence at other boxes from a distance. Astrologers call this an aspect, and it's why a planet can matter for an area of life it isn't sitting in.
The basic rule: every planet aspects the box directly opposite it — seven signs away. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn each get extra reach on top of that.
Why you should care: it's the usual answer to "but that planet isn't even in my career box, so why does it keep coming up?" It's shouting from across the room.
Retrograde and combust, without the drama
Two words that get thrown around a lot and sound far worse than they are.
Retrograde means the planet appeared to move backwards across the sky. It isn't actually reversing — it's an optical effect of Earth overtaking it, the way a slower car seems to slide backwards when you pass it. Traditionally it makes a planet's themes more internal and slower to show results.
Combust means the planet sat very close to the Sun and was lost in its glare. The traditional reading is that its strength gets dimmed — not cancelled, dimmed.
Neither is a disaster. Plenty of people with several retrograde planets have perfectly ordinary lives. Anyone selling you a remedy for a retrograde is selling you something.
What this can and can't tell you
Worth being blunt, since this page has spent a while treating a chart as a serious object.
- It can describe tendencies, and it can time long stretches — that part is arithmetic, and two astrologers with the same birth data will compute the same periods.
- It can't tell you what someone will do with those tendencies. Two people with near-identical charts live completely different lives.
- It definitely can't give exact dates for a death, a downfall, or an exam result — and anyone who does is guessing with confidence.
Charts like his
What people ask about his kundli
What is Yuvraj Singh's birth time — and why won't this page use it?
The value in circulation is 12:00 noon on 12 December 1981, at PGI Chandigarh. Noon is what a record defaults to when nobody wrote the minute down, so we treat it as a placeholder rather than a birth time. That one decision is why his janam kundli here shows signs and eras but no rising sign, no houses and no manglik verdict — all three need the minute, not the day. Everything we did publish was re-run across a six-hour window and doesn't move.
What is Yuvraj Singh's zodiac sign?
It depends which system is asking, which is why answers online quietly contradict each other. In Vedic astrology your rashi is your Moon sign, and his Moon is in Gemini. His Sun sits in Scorpio. A Western horoscope, which counts from a different zero point, reads the same birthday as Sagittarius. Three different words for one man, and none of them is a mistake — they're answers to different questions.
What is Yuvraj Singh's nakshatra?
Ardra — the slice of Gemini his Moon landed in. A nakshatra is a finer cut than a sign: twenty-seven of them around the same circle, so it pins the Moon down far more precisely than "Gemini" manages on its own. It also does the real work on this page. Which nakshatra the Moon falls in is what sets the dasha clock — the order and the start dates of the long planetary stretches below. His stays Ardra anywhere in that six-hour window, which is the only reason we're willing to print those eras at all.
What does his kundli analysis actually turn on?
One handover, in March 2012 — not a placement. His birth chart has no exalted planet, no debilitated planet and nothing in its own sign, so the sign-by-sign reading runs out almost immediately. The timing doesn't. His Jupiter stretch ran from 1996 to March 2012 and contains the debut, the six sixes and the 2011 World Cup; Saturn took over from there and contains the slower, heavier decade. Read honestly, that is a way of labelling chapters that have already happened. A dasha is a calendar, not a cause — it forecast nothing, and nothing in this chart explains what happened to him.
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Real searches from Google India around Yuvraj's horoscope — the pages they lead to are on their way.