Indian cricket hero Yuvraj Singh is ‘on top of The World’ after award win
Indian cricket star, Yuvraj Singh, has visited The World, a collection of islands off the coast of Dubai and planted an Indian flag on the ‘India’ island. Singh was visiting this luxury development to celebrate a top cricket award win. Last week, he had been at the glittering LG ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai where he collected the inaugural Twenty20 International Performance of the Year Award for a unique feat in Twenty20 International cricket. Last year he stunned the world when he hit six consecutive sixes for India off England’s Stuart Broad in the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa.
The ICC Awards are now in their fifth year and this is the first time the event has been held in Dubai. Yuvraj Singh was selected for his award by a panel of some of the greats of the game.
The private and resort islands are sold by invitation only to chosen individuals who will leave their legacy with this epic development and want to own one of the most desirable and exclusive addresses on the planet. The World has been built by Nakheel, a Dubai World company and one of the world’s largest and most innovative real estate developers. The development was originally revealed in 2003, when His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, announced a global landmark - 300 hundred islands reclaimed from the sea in the shape of the world map.
From 2010 more than 40 luxury resorts will start to open. Different world class brands and names will offer fine dining, spas and luxury boutiques, idyllic vacation homes, spectacular marina, yacht and beach clubs and scuba diving, snorkeling and dive centres.
Nakheel recently revealed that 90 per cent of islands on The World have been sold.
