Lucknow Super Giants head coach Justin Langer has brushed aside speculations surrounding the alleged heated conversation between captain KL Rahul and team owner Sanjiv Goenka. A clip of Goenka having an animated chat with Rahul went viral after LSG suffered a 10-wicket thrashing at the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad last week.
It led to a furore with a host of former cricketers suggesting such conversations should be held behind closed doors and not in public view.
Langer says claims it was a normal conversation and quipped that the reaction to the video is the fifth surprise of his life after his four daughters.
“I was so surprised by the reaction,” Langer told Revsportz. “It was incredible. I thought about it a lot for the last four days. There are not very many surprises in my life. I have had four surprises in my life. They were the four sexes of my daughter, when they were born, because I had no idea. And they kept coming out. I said, ‘It’s a girl’. Four girls but we didn’t know. It was a great surprise, as we did not know. When I saw the reaction the other night, it was the fifth surprise of my life.”
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Langer said Rahul and Goenka are ‘two of the peaceful men’ on the planet and they were only discussing about their plans not working out.
“Anyone who knows Mr. Goenka or KL Rahul knows they are the calmest and most peaceful men on the planet. When I saw there were some arms going about, I thought, ‘Woah, I have never seen this before.’ When I listened to the conversation, it was just about where our plan went wrong in the game, and it went wrong,” Langer said.
“That is the funny thing about the aftermath of what happened. No one knew what was said. I am so surprised by the birth of my daughters because it was all about the plan of our game and where it went wrong. It was just cricket talk. We are just laughing about it, and it has been such an awesome relationship between Mr. Goenka, his son, KL, and myself,” he added.
A picture of Goenka and Rahul greeting each other was widely shared on social media two days after widespread backlash over the incident. The picture reportedly is from a dinner the LSG owner hosted at his residence for the team recently.
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