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Yuvraj Singh Says He Got BMW M5 After Lalit Modi's Porsche Promise

His podcast recollection revisits how a viral IPL-era story took shape.

Overview

  • Yuvraj Singh told the Overlap Cricket podcast that Lalit Modi had promised a Porsche 911 to any player who hit six sixes in an over.
  • He said he did not receive the Porsche and got a BMW M5 instead, calling Modi a man of his word.
  • He recalled asking if a win in the next game would upgrade the prize to a Ferrari and said Modi shot down the idea.
  • He recounted that match referee Chris Broad asked him to sign a shirt for Stuart Broad and that he later heard Stuart threw it away.
  • Outlets reported these details as Yuvraj’s first-hand account of his 2007 six-sixes feat, noting no new documents to verify the anecdote.