NEW DELHI: In a shocking revelation, India pacer Mohammed Shami has claimed that he thought of committing suicide thrice while battling with severe stress due to personal and professional issues.
During a live chat on Instagram with Rohit Sharma, Shami opened up on his personal and professional life and credited his family for their unparalleled support during the testing times which helped him recover strongly. “I think if my family had not supported me back then I would have lost my cricket. I thought of committing suicide three times during that period due to severe stress and personal problems,” Shami revealed during the session on Saturday.
The 29-year-old pacer also mentioned that he was struggling to focus on his cricket, then. “I was not thinking about cricket at all. We were living on the 24th floor. They (family) were scared I might jump from the balcony. My brother supported me a lot. “My 2-3 friends used to stay with me for 24 hours. My parents asked me to focus on cricket to recover from that phase and not think about anything else. I started training then and sweated it out a lot at an academy in Dehradun,” Shami said.
Shami had a fall out with his estranged wife Hasin Jahan in 2018 when she accused the Indian pacer and his family of domestic abuse. She lodged a complaint with the police, following which the India player and his brother were booked under relevant sections. The chaos in Shami’s personal also forced BCCI to withheld his central contracts for a while. (AGENCIES)
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