IPL started in 2008, and till now, 18 seasons of the league have been played. An incident of the first season was hidden for a long time. In 2008, in a match between the Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, the Mumbai Indians' Harbhajan Singh slapped the Punjab's fast bowler S Sreesanth, which later came to be known as Slapgate.

Indian Premier League (IPL) is the richest league in cricket. It started in 2008, and till now 18 seasons of the league have been played. An incident of the first season was hidden for a long time.

In 2008, during a match between the Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, the Mumbai Indians' Harbhajan Singh slapped Punjab's fast bowler S Sreesanth, which later came to be known as 'Slapgate'. Now IPL founder and former chairman Lalit Modi has shared a video of this incident between Harbhajan and Sreesanth.

Revealed in a podcast

In a conversation with Australia's World Cup winning captain, Michael Clarke on the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast, Lalit Modi showed a part of the video which was not shown in the telecast. Before showing this footage, Lalit Modi said, "The game was over, the cameras were off. One of my security cameras was on. It captured the incident between Sreesanth and Bhajji."

Bhajji had expressed regret

Recently, Harbhajan expressed regret over the slapping incident with Sreesanth and said that if he gets a chance, he would like to remove this moment from his career. In a conversation with Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan said, "One thing that I would like to change in my life is the incident that happened with Sreesanth. I want to remove that incident from my career. This is the incident that I would like to remove from my list. What happened was wrong, and I should not have done what I did. I apologized 200 times. The worst thing that I felt was that even years after that incident, I kept apologizing on every occasion or platform. This was a mistake."

Harbhajan had said, "What hurt me even after years was that when I met his daughter and was talking to her very lovingly, she said, 'I don't want to talk to you. You have killed my father.' I was heartbroken and started crying. I was asking myself what impression I left on her. She must be thinking wrongly about me. She sees me as the person who killed her father. I felt very bad. I still apologize to his daughter."

PC: Jagran