New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI) In a stunning revelation, former New Zealand batter Ross Taylor has claimed that he was “slapped” by one of the owners of Rajasthan Royals franchise during the 2011 season of the IPL.
Taylor said that he couldn’t perform well for a period of time and during one of the meetings in a hotel, an owner ‘playfully’ slapped him across the face thrice.
“When you go to a new team, you don’t get that backing. You never feel comfortable because you know that if you go two or three games without a score, you come under cold-eyed scrutiny,” wrote Taylor in his autobiography ‘Ross Taylor: Black & White’.
“RR owner slapped me 3-4 times when I got out for a duck in 2011 IPL match in Mohali and said ‘we didn’t pay you a million to get out on a duck’ and laughed,” he wrote.
“It weren’t hard slaps, but I couldn’t imagine it happening in professional sporting environments,” Ross Taylor added.
Taylor in his book revealed that the incident after a match between the Rajasthan Royals and the Kings XI Punjab in Mohali.
Having retired from all forms of cricket earlier this year, Ross Taylor has recently been in the news for exposing the ugly side of the cricket world in his book Black and White.
He had also called out some of the top New Zealand cricketers for casual racism during his early days.