Former New Zealand batter and essentially the most skilled cricketer within the Kiwi colors, Ross Taylor has revealed that he was slapped by one of many house owners of Rajasthan Royals after an Indian Premier League sport. Taylor wrote in his autobiography, Ross Taylor: Black & White, that the incident occurred after the match ended.
“Rajasthan played Kings XI Punjab in Mohali. The chase was 195, I was lbw for a duck and we didn’t get close,” Taylor was quoted from his autobiography by stuff.co.nz.
“Afterwards, the team, support staff and management were in the bar on the top floor of the hotel. Liz Hurley was there with Warnie,” he wrote.
“One of the Royals owners said to me, ‘Ross, we didn’t pay you a million dollars to get a duck’ and slapped me across the face three or four times,” Taylor revealed.
However, Taylor added that the slaps weren’t aggressive however he left him with the sensation that this is able to not have occurred in {many professional} environments.
“He was laughing and they weren’t hard slaps but I’m not sure that it was entirely play-acting. Under the circumstances I wasn’t going to make an issue of it, but I couldn’t imagine it happening in many professional sporting environments,” the enduring Kiwi batter wrote.
The former middle-order batsman has additionally written about racism extensively in his guide, stating that he had been within the incorrect finish of issues many occasions.
“Having studied racism within the media at college as a part of a sports activities diploma, Victoria in all probability seen issues that many others did not. For occasion, it used to upset her that my unhealthy photographs had been typically put all the way down to “brain explosions” or “dumb cricket” whereas different gamers’ unhealthy photographs had been “lapses in concentration” or “poor shot selection”, or excused on the premise that, “Well, that’s the way he plays,” an excerpt from his guide was quoted by New Zealand Herald.
Taylor performed for Rajasthan Royals for only one season in 2011 after which moved to Delhi Daredevils after which later to Pune Warriors. In his 55-match lengthy IPL profession he scored 1017 runs.
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