When drunk Andrew Symonds tied Yuzvendra Chahal, taped his mouth and forgot about him in room

Yuzvendra Chahal has endured some rough days in his early phase in the Indian Premier League, especially when he was teammates with the likes of Andrew Symonds and James Franklin at the Mumbai Indians. A few years back, Chahal had opened up about how he was physically harassed more established teammates for their own entertainment.
Chahal was a youngster hoping to make it big back in those days when the first incident happened in 2011. Chahal opened up on a podcast his previous team Royal Challengers Bengaluru about how Symonds and Franklin had tied him up, put tape on his mouth and left him in a room overnight. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
“This was in 2011 after wining Champions League in a Chennai hotel. He [Andrew Symonds] had drunk a lot of ‘fruit juice’,” Chahal had said on the podcast. “I was with him, only. James Franklin and Symonds tied my hands and legs, and said ‘now you have to open’. They were in so much masti that they taped my mouth and forgot all about me. Party got over and in the morning, when a cleaner came, he saw me and freed me. They asked from when have I been here like this and I told them, ‘from the night itself’.”
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When asked if Symonds and Franklin apologised to him in the morning, Chahal said, “No, they said sometimes when they drink ‘juice’ so much, they can’t handle it and they can’t remember anything”.
Chahal had also opened up about a scary incident in 2013 when he had fainted after a teammate dangled him off a hotel room balcony.
“This dates back to 2013, when I was with Mumbai Indians,” Chahal had told R Ashwin in a Rajasthan Royals video. “We had a match in Bengaluru and there was a get-together after that. 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. 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 make there, I would have fallen down.”