New Delhi: County team Durham has said that it is ‘private’ with the former New Zealand fast bowler over allegations of physical harassment made by Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal on their head coach James Franklin. Will talk.
Earlier this year, in the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) podcast, Chahal recalled an incident in 2011 when his Mumbai Indians teammate Franklin and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds were reportedly celebrating victory in that year’s Champions League final. had tied them up.
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“We are aware of recent reports of a 2011 incident in which a member of our coaching staff has been named,” Durham said in a statement, according to ESPNcricinfo. “On any issues concerning our employees, the club will speak personally to the parties concerned to ascertain the facts,” it said. Chahal had also alleged that both of them had closed his mouth with tape and left him alone in the room for the night.
Franklin was a part of Mumbai Indians from 2011 to 2013. He was appointed coach of Durham in early 2019. Chahal had said, “This is the incident of 2011 when Mumbai Indians won the Champions League. We were in Chennai. He (Symonds) drank too much ‘fruit juice’.”
He said, “I don’t know what they were thinking, but he and James Franklin tied my hands and feet together and said, ‘Now you open it and show it. He was so intoxicated that he tapered my mouth and completely forgot about me during the party.” Chahal said, “They left from there. In the morning someone came to clean the room and he saw me. He called some others and freed me.”
According to Chahal, both the players never apologized to him for this. The charges against Franklin and Symonds came to the fore after the leg-spinner revealed another incident where he was hung from the 15th floor of a hotel by a drunk player at a party after an IPL match in Bengaluru in 2013. (agency)