The 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 may not have started yet due to the global outbreak of coronavirus, but cricketers around the world never miss a single chance to talk about the premier tournament, recall and share their memorable memories from the T20 event.
Recently, Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper-batsman Narayan Jagadeesan recalled how former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson got furious and even swear at him after being hit for a massive six by the latter.
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Recalling the incident, Jagadeesan revealed that he had attended trials for IPL side Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2017 – where he managed to hit Watson for a big boundary off a switch hut at the nets and, which left his now Chennai Super Kings’ teammate furious at him.
Jagadeesan said on a chat show Homerun with the sports commentator Arun Venugopal on his YouTube channel Gethist Creative: “When Shane Watson was bowling to me, I played a switch-hit against him which went to the boundary. Watson was furious. He came up to me and said ‘what do you think of yourself? You think you can hit me like that?’ He literally swore at me.”
He added, “The next two balls, he steamed in with intent. As things panned out, the coach said it was the last set (of deliveries) at the nets. Before Watson could take my head off, I walked out of the nets!”
Jagadeesan also opened up how he managed to remember Watson the incident with the use of the words 'switch-hit' during their IPL days with the CSK since 2018.
He signed off by saying, “Oh yeah, I reminded him about it during my very first year. Initially, Watson couldn’t remember the incident, but when I told him ‘switch-hit’, he instantly remembered. He was like, “Hey, you were the guy”. I just said yes.”
(With CricketNext Inputs)
