The India and Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner reflects on being hung out of a 15th-floor balcony by an inebriated teammate while at Mumbai Indians in 2013
Yuzvendra Chahal has revealed more allegations of physical abuse during his time as a young player, including allegedly being hung off of a 15th-floor balcony by a Mumbai Indians player in 2013.
Chahal said in a Rajesthan Royals video with Ravichandran Ashwin the incident happened when the player in question was drunk after a match.
"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," explained the India spinner.
"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."
"They were so lost that they taped my mouth and forgot about me completely during the party."
Chahal’s latest allegation comes several months after detailing another instance of physical harassment from 2011 while appearing on a podcast published by Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier this year.
The Royals leg-spinner said that he was tied up by his then Mumbai Indians teammates Andrew Symonds and James Franklin, had his mouth taped and was then left in a room and forgotten about for the rest of the night.
"It happened in 2011 when Mumbai Indians won the Champions League," he said.
"We were in Chennai. He [Symonds] had had a lot of 'fruit juice' (laughs). I don't know what he was thinking, but he and James Franklin got together and tied my hands and legs and said, 'no, you've to open'
"They were so lost that they taped my mouth and forgot about me completely during the party. Then they all left and, in the morning, someone came to clean [the room] and saw me, and called a few others and untied me.
Chahal spent three seasons for MI before joining RCB (MANJUNATH KIRAN/Getty Images)
"They asked me since when I had been there, and I said, 'I've been here the whole night'. So that became a funny story."
Chahal said neither Franklin nor Symonds had apologised to him for the incident: "No, they said when you drink so much juice you don't remember stuff in the morning (laughs)."
Now 31, Chahal was bought by Royals in this year’s IPL auction having played for RCB since 2018.
He started his IPL career at Mumbai Indians in 2011 and played 61 one-day internationals and 54 T20I appearances for his country.
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