Former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor has revealed a surprising incident in his autobiography ‘Ross Taylor: Black & White’, which was launched earlier this week.

Taylor recalled when he was slapped throughout the face by a Rajasthan Royals (RR) proprietor after he was dismissed for a duck in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match towards the Punjab Kings (then Kings XI Punjab) in Mohali.

Though the Black Caps cricketer talked about that the slaps weren’t exhausting, however mentioned he was unsure if it was totally play-acting.

“The chase was 195, I used to be lbw for a duck, and we didn’t get shut. Afterwards, the crew, help workers and administration had been within the bar on the highest flooring of the lodge. Liz Hurley was there with Warnie [Shane Warne],” Taylor wrote in his e-book, an excerpt of which was printed on Stuff.co.nz.

“One of many Royals house owners mentioned to me, ‘Ross, we didn’t pay you one million {dollars} to get a duck,’ and slapped me throughout the face three or 4 instances. He was laughing, and so they weren’t exhausting slaps, however I’m unsure it was totally play-acting. Underneath the circumstances, I wasn’t going to make a difficulty of it, however I couldn’t think about it taking place in {many professional} sporting environments,” he added.

Notably, Taylor had represented Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) throughout the preliminary years of the cash-rich league, however the Rajasthan franchise had snapped him up for $1 million in 2011. The Wellington-born cricketer, nevertheless, mentioned that he would have most popular to stick with the Bangalore franchise quite than the 2008 IPL winners.

“Whereas it was wonderful to go for one million {dollars}, in the long term, I’d’ve been higher off if RCB had bought me for US$950,000. If that they had, it will have been my fourth yr with them. Whenever you fetch that kind of cash, you’re desperately eager to show that you just’re value it. I’d paid my dues at RCB: if I’d had a lean trot, the administration would have had religion in me due to what I’d carried out up to now. Whenever you go to a brand new crew, you don’t get that backing. You by no means really feel snug as a result of you recognize that in case you go two or three video games with no rating, you come underneath cold-eyed scrutiny,” Taylor wrote additional.