Taylor reveals new IPL 'slapgate' incident with Rajasthan Royals

It's a shocking revelation about the seemingly unprofessional ways in which entitled Indian Premier League (IPL) owners can often treat their cricketers, even the foreign ones.

Former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor, in his upcoming new book, has written about how he was casually slapped "three or four times" across the face by a "laughing" Rajasthan Royals owner, in full view of others at a hotel bar, after getting a duck in a game.

Taylor also mentions the "cold-eyed scrutiny" he faced at the franchise in 2011 after being treated well at RCB earlier, and how he couldn't "imagine" the slap incident "happening in many other professional sporting environments".