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The worst has befallen him but Yuvraj Singh will emerge strongly after his life’s biggest test.

In astrology, the sixth and eighth houses are related to sports, besides the fifth, third and 12th. The sixth and eighth houses indicate the strenuous, excruciatingly tough path involved in sports and the victory over enemies. Strangely these two houses are also the indicators of rare diseases. A famous sportsperson with the sixth or eighth house connection always has the danger of contracting a rare disease. There are a numerous examples of this unique phenomenon like Muhammad Ali with Parkinson’s, Lance Armstrong and Martina Navratilova with cancer, Jonty Rhodes with epilepsy, Venus Williams with Sjogren’s syndrome, etc.

Yuvraj Singh has ‘Planet-Y’, a very strong ‘exoplanet’ in the strongest point in his eighth house.‘Planet-Y’ is responsible for his accomplishments as a sports superstar as well as extraordinary heroic acts. But this is the same phenomenon which is responsible for his current malady.

But the World Cup hero has Uranus, planet of extraordinary deeds, exalted in his first house of personality making him the only Indian to be a part of three world cup victories. The same Uranus will propel him to emerge fitter, meaner and hungrier than ever before, post his treatment of a rare but curable cancer.

Yuvraj would definitely play in the Twenty 20 World Cup in 2012 and 2014 with decent success. But he would be a revelation of sorts in Test cricket in the period between 2012 and 2015.His captaincy too would flourish. Expect him to lead Pune Warriors with smashing success in the next two years.

He may even lead India in the future in some format with reasonable success.

Lobo is a Mumbai-based astrologer