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Yuzvendra Chahal opens up about bullying by senior player

‘He took me outside and he hung me out from the balcony’

Yuzvendra Chahal File Photo

Our Bureau
Published 09.04.22, 02:13 AM

Yuzvendra Chahal has opened up about bullying by senior teammates when he was a newcomer in the IPL. The incident is from 2013, when Chahal was with Mumbai Indians, and a player allegedly dangled him from the 15th-floor balcony of a hotel.

“We had a match in Bangalore and there was a get-together after that. So there was a player who was very drunk — and I won’t take his name — he was very drunk, he just called me aside, and he took me outside and he hung me out from the balcony,” Chahal said, speaking to Ravichandran Ashwin in a Rajasthan Royals video about how players handle tricky off-field situations.

“I was holding on to him, with my arms around his neck. If I had lost my grip... I kind of fainted, and they gave me water. Then I realised how responsible we need to be. Had there been a small mistake there, I would have fallen down.”

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