Yashpal Sharma

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A brief biography

July 14, 2021: The Times of India

Yashpal Sharma: highlights
From: July 14, 2021: The Times of India

India’s 1983 World Cup-winning cricket team lost its first member when Yashpal Sharma passed away following a cardiac arrest in Delhi on Tuesday. Only 66 years old, he had “looked the fittest of the lot” during a June 25 get-together of the champions organised by Kapil Dev.

Teammate Kirti Azad, who broke the news on the WhatsApp group of the 1983 World Cup winners, told Arani Basu, “Everyone went numb. The backbone of the team is gone, our team is broken.”

Yashpal represented India in 37 Tests and 42 ODIs before becoming one of the selectors in the committee led by his teammate K Srikkanth, which picked the team that won the World Cup under MS Dhoni in 2011.

Saved 3 Sikh players during ’84 riots

Yashpal Sharma stood out for his guts and grit, on and off the pitch. Along with Chetan Chauhan, Sharma had come to the rescue of three Sikh players of the North Zone team during a nerve-racking train journey in the middle of the 1984 riots. After asking Navjot Sidhu, Yograj Singh and Rajinder Ghai to hide in the compartment, a daring Sharma and Chauhan confronted a mob and made sure they didn’t harm the three.