Overview
- An excerpt from The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife details how a practice-match injury in 2009 left Cheteshwar Pujara with a ruptured ACL before he played an IPL game for KKR.
- Reports cite the book’s account that KKR committed to full medical costs and selected Cape Town for specialist knee surgery.
- Pujara’s father initially resisted overseas treatment and preferred their trusted doctor in Rajkot, according to the book.
- The book says Shah Rukh Khan personally reassured the family and offered to fly relatives and the family doctor to South Africa.
- KKR expedited passports, visas, and travel so family and Dr Nirbhay Shah could be in Cape Town, and the successful surgery preceded Pujara’s rise as a dependable India Test batter.