Ross Taylor: Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) is the biggest cricket league in the world. Here some of the world's best and brightest players showcase their skills. Apart from this, some big controversies are also seen from time to time in IPL. Recently, Lucknow Super Giants had to face a crushing defeat by 10 wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

After this, LSG's Malika was seen angrily reprimanding team captain KL Rahul. Since then this matter has become a topic of discussion on social media. But this is not the first case when a franchise owner has misbehaved with his player.

Ross Taylor was slapped

Former New Zealand player Ross Taylor had made a shocking revelation in his autobiography that he was misbehaved by the team owner during his days playing for Rajasthan Royals. It is noteworthy that Ross joined Rajasthan Royals in 2011. He was bought for one million dollars.

He made a big revelation in his book Ross Taylor: Black and White that Rajasthan had a target of 195 runs in a match against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings). Taylor could not do well in this match and was out LBW on the score of zero. After this, in the evening the team, support staff and team management met in the bar located on the top floor of the hotel, where Taylor was slapped by the team owner of Rajasthan.

Ross Taylor revealed

Ross Taylor says that a franchise owner came to me. “We don't pay you millions of dollars to get out on zero,” he told me, Taylor. He did not stop just at this. They also slapped me a few times. During this time he was laughing in a very scary manner. Taylor further wrote that “This slap was not very hard, but it did not seem funny either. I wanted to raise this issue. But could not do so.”

Ross Taylor's IPL career was like this

40 year old Ross Taylor played a total of 55 matches in his IPL career. In these, he scored 1017 runs at an average of 25.43 and strike rate of 123.72. During this period, the right-handed batsman played 3 half-century innings.