A post has been going viral on social media claiming that Watson continued to play despite the knee injury only because of MS Dhoni.
According to the post, when a reporter asked Shane Watson as to why he continued to play even after getting injured, Watson replayed, ” Just for one man MS Dhoni, when I was failing he kept me playing. I wanted to do something special for MSD and his fans for their unconditional love. ”
At the time of filing the report, the post had more than 8,000 shares.
FACT CHECK
When NewsMobile fact-checked the post, we found it to be false.
We run a Google search using keywords ‘Shane Watson’, ‘ Dhoni’, ‘Knee injury’ and did not find any report to support this post
Moreover, when we scrolled through his social media page, we found this vied omessage on his Instagram page.
“Next year we will come back stronger #whistlepodu@chennaiipl.” caption of the post read.
The above information proves that Shane Watson never made such comments.
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