Yuvraj may have to wait for his sports car

Yuvraj may have to wait for his sports car

By Bipin Dani

Mumbai, Sept. 25 : India's left-handed batsman Yuvraj Singh will not be presented a sports car by the Indian cricket board. Instead, the car will be gifted to him by BCCI's vice-president Lalit Modi, it is reliably learnt.

According to the sources close to the BCCI, all victorious team members will be paid a hefty sum and BCCI will be paying a special prize of Rs. 1 crore to Yuvraj Singh for hitting six sixes in an over against England in the Twenty20 match.

All national TV chanels have also been running the news that the all-round will also be gifted a car by the BCCI.

Lalit Modi, a 42-year-old sharp-minded billionaire and vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is one of the main men behind the astonishing amounts of money coming into Indian cricket. He has created mass money-making vehicles that the previous regime failed to identify and exploit. "The car will be gifted to Yuvraj Singh by him", a source added. Yuvraj may have to wait for few more days to get the keys of the vehicle.

The prize money will not be tax-exemped to the players, it is also learnt here.