Usman Khawaja has revealed that a former teammate accidentally soiled his bed after sneezing during a dinner.
Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has revealed an embarrassing annecdote about his ex-teammate, Michael Beer, in his recently released autobiography, Sabr. In quite anecdotal detail, Khawaja mentions that Beer accidentally soiled the bed in his hotel room during a match.
Khawaja recounted how Beer, Australia’s spinner at the time, had joined him for dinner while they watched television. With limited space in the room, Beer sat on the edge of Khawaja’s bed while the latter sat on the table.
However, midway through their meal, Beer sneezed and immediately shouted, ‘Oh ****’. Khawaja initially wondered if his teammate was alright, but Beer soon apologised profusely.
“I’m so sorry, Uz. Really, mate, I’m so sorry," Beer told him.
The reason for the apology became clear when Beer got off the bed, leaving behind a large brown stain on the sheets.
“He proceeded to get up off my bed, with a big brown mark etched into my sheets," Khawaja wrote. “The same brown mark was on his pants. He’d sneezed and ‘sharted’ you know, farted but shitted. Right on my bed."
Khawaja and Beer made their Test cricket debuts for Australia together on January 3, 2011, during the fifth Ashes Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Beer only played one more Test for Australia, taking three wickets in all.
Khawaja has been in the news of late because of the book. He decdicates a chapter in it to the 2018 Sandpaper Gate saga, claiming that the entire team, and not just the three banned batters, knew about the ploy to tamper with the ball.
While Cricket Australia has refused to reopen the investigation, it has led to a huge furor in the Australian cricket fraternity. Pat Cummins addressed a long press conference on Friday where he rejected the claims as baseless and ‘nonsense’.
