A long buried controversy of the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was back in the public eye after a video of the notorious ‘Lapgate’ incident was made public by former Indian Premier League (IPL) chair Lalit Modi.
Almost two decades, the full images of the fight between Harbhajan Singh And S. Sreesanth Was never seen by the audience and added an atmosphere of Mystique and speculation to the event that shocked the cricket world. The recent release of the video, which records the exact moment of the incident, has fueled a new wave of commentary and led to a strong response from Harbhajan. The move has a discussion about one of the darkest chapters of the IPL and the motivations behind the sudden revival of the IPL ruled.
The controversy dates from the IPL 2008 season, after a competition in between Mumbai Indians And Kings XI Punjab. In the aftermath of the game, television cameras showed a tearful Sreesanth that was comforted by his teammates. However, the full size of what happened on the field remained a mystery to the public. That recently changed Modi, on a podcast with former Australian captain Michael Clarkerevealed the rather unseen images. The video put a back -handy blow to Sreesanth at the time that Harbhajan, at Mumbai, the captain of Mumbai, delivered a back -handed blow to Sreesanth during the hands after the game. The images shows a heated exchange and a fighting situation when Sreesanth stormed to Harbhajan before other players intervened to separate the two.
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Harbhajan’s destructive response to Lalit Modi with regard to the viral slapgate video
The public release of the video, years after the players had reconciled, drew a quick and emotional reaction from Harbhajan. Speaking with a media outlet, he did not hide and expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision to leak the clip. He argued that the resurfacing of the video was a wrong and unnecessary movement ‘Egoist motive’ Behind it, people force an incident to experience that took place 18 years ago and had largely been forgotten.
“The way the video was leaked, it is wrong. It should not have happened. They may have a selfish motive behind it. Something that happened 18 years ago, people have forgotten it, and they remind people,” “ Harbhajan was quoted by Hindustan Times. He continued to transfer his deep feeling of shame and regret about the issue and said: “I feel bad about what happened. We were playing, and everyone had things going on. There have been mistakes and we are ashamed of it,”
The former spinner, who has apologized several times over the years, including recently organized by a podcast by Ravichandran AshwinRecognized his mistake again. He explained, “People make mistakes and I also did one. I asked Lord Ganesh to forgive me when I make a mistake again. Misses happen,” For his actions in 2008, the BCCI and IPL committee Harbhajan had banned for 11 games and forfeited its competition costs.
Here is the video:
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