Overview
- Puja Pujara’s book recounts that a practice-match mishap in 2009 left Cheteshwar Pujara with a ruptured ACL, shelving his first season with Kolkata Knight Riders.
- Shah Rukh Khan personally reassured Pujara’s family, advocated for treatment in South Africa, and offered to fly relatives and the family’s trusted doctor.
- KKR arranged passports, visas and travel within days, with a team representative promising to bring “anyone you want” to support Pujara during surgery.
- The operation in Cape Town was successful, leading to a full recovery before Pujara established himself as a mainstay in India’s Test side.
- News reports attribute the account to The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife and note no independent medical documentation or new on-record statements from KKR.