Ex-Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill has finally broken his silence on his horrific kidnapping incident which took place 15 months ago. His abduction had left the entire cricketing community stunned at the time. Lifting the lid on the nightmarish episode, Stuart MacGill has now revealed in an interview with an Australian broadcaster that he wasn't just kidnapped but was stripped naked, beaten up, and then dumped on the road.

The Australian police later arrested four men, including the brother of Stuart MacGill's partner, Maria O'Meagher for abducting the cricketer.

While the court will not hear Stuart MacGill's case until October 2023, the Perth-born cricket star divulged some details of the horrifying incident on the SEN WA Breakfast show.

Though he didn't share it all, whatever intricacies Stuart MacGill shared would have frightened just about anyone.

“It was not something you’d even like to happen to your worst enemy,” MacGill said.

“Later in the day, it was getting quite dark, I was bundled into a car.”

“I didn’t want to get into the car, I said to them twice, ‘I’m not getting in the car,’ but then it became obvious they were armed, and they said, ‘We know you’re not involved, we just want to have a chat,’ then they put me in the car and I was in the car for an hour and a half.”

The incident took place on 14 April last year and Stuart MacGill disclosed that he had no idea about his location at the time, but was physically harmed before being left alone on the highway, in a bruised and battered state.

“I didn’t know where we were, I didn’t know where we were going and I was scared,” MacGill said.

“From that point, they stripped me naked, beat me up, threatened me and then just dumped me.”

“That was over the course of maybe three hours out in the middle of nowhere in a little shed.”

“I was scared, I was humiliated and I really didn’t know what was going to happen. Then they chucked me back in the car and dropped me in Belmore, and I didn’t really know where I was then either, to be honest.”

Stuart MacGill said that the ordeal affected him to such an extent that he stayed away from his home for six months.

“I basically ran away for a month afterward,” MacGill said.

“Maria chucked me in the back of her car, I was in the boot, I got out of my unit, then I had a couple of mates who very generously put me up in hotels around Sydney for two or three weeks, and then I went away with (a friend).”

“We ended up driving up the coast of New South Wales and through Queensland and ended up on Fraser Island, so all up I was probably away for six weeks or so.”

“By the time I got home most of the guys had been arrested, which was good.”

Stuart MacGill represented Australia from 1998 to 2008, playing 44 Test matches and three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for the national cricket team. He played a large majority of his games under the leadership of the great Steve Waugh who was impressed with the amount of spin leg-spinner generated on his deliveries.

Stuart has been credited with having the best strike rate of any modern leg-spin bowler but didn't find a regular place in the Australian Test team due to the dominance of Shane Warne in the position of a sole spinner. His bowling was slightly slower through the air than Warne's, but he was a prodigious turner of the ball.

Though Stuart MacGill's career always remained under the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne who died earlier this year due to a reported heart attack in Thailand, McGill remains the quickest spinner to 150 Test wickets in terms of deliveries, reaching the milestone in only 8312 balls.

Stuart MacGill's career-best figures of 8/108 in an innings came against Bangladesh in a 2006 Test match played in Fatullah which is still remembered for Australia's incredible fightback.

After making 427 in the first essay, the Bangladeshi bowlers made merry on the field, dismissing the mighty Australian batting line-up, comprising the likes of Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey, and Damien Martin for just 269 as they took a healthy 158-run lead over their rivals.

With their backs to the wall, the Australians rose to the occasion, bowling out the home team for only 148 runs in the second innings, thus nullifying the advantage they had achieved with their stupendous show in the first.

Chasing 307 to win the match, the Australians once again found themselves in trouble after a middle-order collapse. But captain Ricky Ponting managed to carry them over the finishing line with an unbeaten 118.

While it was Ricky Ponting who showed nerves of steel on the final day to secure Australia's narrow three-wicket triumph, it wouldn't have been possible without the contribution of Stuart MacGill's eight wickets in Bangladesh's first innings.