{"id":44217,"date":"2026-02-17T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44217"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:56:00","slug":"t20-world-cup-canadian-boy-named-after-yuvraj-singh-becomes-youngest-centurion-in-tournament-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\/t20-world-cup-canadian-boy-named-after-yuvraj-singh-becomes-youngest-centurion-in-tournament-history\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Canadian boy named after Yuvraj Singh becomes youngest centurion in tournament history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Baljit Samra named his son after <strong>Yuvraj Singh<\/strong>, he probably hoped the cricketing magic would rub off. On the biggest stage of them all, it did.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen-year-old <strong>Yuvraj Singh Samra<\/strong> etched his name into T20 World Cup history by becoming the <strong>youngest batter to score a century in the tournament<\/strong>, achieving the milestone during Canada\u2019s Group D clash in the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed top-order batter brought up his hundred in style, driving a boundary off Kyle Jamieson before removing his helmet and raising his bat to acknowledge the moment. It was more than just a personal landmark \u2014 it was a statement from a teenager carrying a famous name.<\/p>\n<p>Samra has grown up around cricket. As a child, he would insist on accompanying his father to games, refusing to be left behind. Years later, that same boy stood tall under the World Cup lights.<\/p>\n<p>At just 19, Samra has already represented Canada in multiple ODIs and T20Is. Known for his aggressive stroke play and preference for hitting straight down the ground, he has often spoken about carving his own identity rather than copying his legendary namesake.<\/p>\n<p>He has met Yuvraj Singh on a couple of occasions, but now the Canadian youngster has created a record of his own \u2014 one that links his name to World Cup folklore.<\/p>\n<p>The next few weeks will reveal how far his journey goes, but for now, world cricket has officially met its youngest T20 World Cup centurion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Baljit Samra named his son after Yuvraj Singh, he probably hoped the cricketing magic would rub off. On the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":44219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44220,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/44220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}