Arunima Sinha, India’s first amputee and the world’s second female amputee to scale Mount Everest, yesterday said cricketer Yuvraj Singh had been an inspiration behind her achieving this feat.

Arunima, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, was pushed out of a moving train after she resisted a chain-snatching attempt by some criminals, as she was travelling from Lucknow to Delhi two years ago. One of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result.