After Yuzvendra Chahal's shocking revelation, former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that the offender should be banned for life from cricket.
Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has made a shocking revelation in a video published by his current IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals on April 7. In the video, Chahal recalled his near-death experience revealing that someone hung him out of the 15th-floor balcony.
Rajasthan Royals shared a video of Chahal’s chat with Ravichandran Ashwin in which the leg spinner made the revelations.
"This dates back to 2013, when I was with Mumbai Indians. We had a match in Bengaluru 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 in the video while speaking to Ashwin.
"I was holding on to him, with my arms around his neck. If I had lost my grip, we were on the 15th floor… Suddenly many people who were there came and handled the situation. I kind of fainted, and they gave me water. Then I realised how responsible we need to be when we go anywhere. So that was one incident where I made a narrow escape. Had there been a small mistake there, I would have fallen down.”
Reacting to the revelation, former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that this is not a "laughing matter at all" and demanded a "life ban" for the offender.
"I do not know who the person involved is, he was not in a conscious state of mind. If that is the case, then it is a big worry. Someone's life is at risk, some people might think it is funny but for me, it is not funny at all. It shows the person who is trying to do it is in a state which is not appropriate. When you are in such a state trying something like that, the chances of mistakes are even more. It is not acceptable at all," Shastri said on ESPNcricinfo's 'T20 Time Out'.
This is the second time this year Chahal has made such a big revelation about him being harassed. Earlier, he had revealed that his Mumbai Indians teammates James Franklin and Andrew Symonds in 2011 had tied him up, taped his mouth, left him in a room and forgot about him for a whole night.
"It is the first time I am hearing such a drastic thing like this. It is not funny at all. If such an incident happens today, a life ban for that person involved and send that person to a rehab centre as quickly as possible. Life ban, better not come near to a cricket field then he will realise how funny is it or not funny," the former all-rounder added.