Former Indian player Cheteshwar Pujara revealed a hilarious incident involving Australian pace bowler Josh Hazlewood in their time with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2021 as well. He was part of the franchise for only one season and did not get to play a single match as well. Meanwhile, Hazlewood played an important role in CSK clinching the title in 2021. Yet, Pujara, in a recent interview, recalled how the pacer refused to bowl to him, having been tormented by Pujara in back-to-back Border-Gavaskar Trophies in 2018/19 and 2020/21 as well.

Recalling the same on JioHotstar’s ‘Cheeky Singles’, Pujara said (via Rediff): “During the Australia series in 2018 and 2021, I played a lot against Josh Hazlewood. Then I got picked by CSK. The first time I went to bat in the nets, Hazlewood refused to bowl to me. He said, ‘I won’t bowl to him.’ Even though he was my teammate, he refused. He joked that he had bowled to me far too much over the previous few months before the IPL, so he was not going to bowl to me again. He was kidding, but he actually did not bowl to me.”

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Cheteshwar Pujara also recalled his fanboy moment on meeting Bollywood Badshah and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan for the first time at the start of his IPL career with the franchise as well. He debuted in the IPL with KKR in 2010, scoring 122 runs in 10 matches as well.

“I started with KKR. Shah Rukh Khan was the owner there. When I met him for the first time, I definitely had that fanboy moment. But when you think about cricket, you can’t think, ‘Just because Shah Rukh Khan is the owner, I want to stay here.’,” Cheteshwar Pujara concluded.