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Sreesanth’s wife Bhuvneshwari has criticised Lalit Modi and Michael Clarke for sharing Harbhajan Singh slap clip, calling it a publicity stunt on Instagram.
Harbhajan Singh slapped S Sreesanth (X)
Former India pacer S Sreesanth’s wife Bhuvneshwari on Friday took to Instagram to take a large dig at IPL founder Lalit Modi and former Australia cricketer Michael Clarke, saying that they brought up a video of Harbhajan Singh slapping her husband for ‘low cost publicity’.
Modi, the architect of the Indian Premier League, revisited multiple past episodes on a podcast with Clarke, where he unveiled the never-before-seen footage from the Mumbai Indians–Kings XI Punjab clash.
Modi recounted the episode to Clarke, explaining that his security camera had captured the unseen moment after the broadcasters had turned theirs off.
“I’ll inform you what happened. I will provide you with the video. I actually have kept it back. Bhajji is a really dear friend of mine. I like him. It happened on the sector and I used to be there. It was Bhajji and it was Sreesanth,” Modi told Clarke while speaking on the Beyond23 podcast.
“The sport was over and the cameras were shut off. Only one among my security cameras was on. Because the team finished playing, the players were high-fiving and shaking hands with one another,” Modi added.
The footage revealed Harbhajan delivering a back-handed slap to Sreesanth throughout the post-match handshake between cricketers of either side.
Harbhajan and Sreesanth have long put the episode behind them, often seen together since, with the previous offering several apologies for the incident.
Sreesanth’s wife, Bhuvneshwari, lashed out at Modi and Clarke for releasing the 2008 IPL slap-gate clip, calling the act “disgusting, heartless and inhuman.”
“Shame on you, @lalitkmodi and @michaelclarkeofficial. You people aren’t even human to pull up something from 2008 only for your personal low cost publicity and views. Each @sreesanthnair36 and Harbhajan have long moved on; they’re fathers now with school-going children and yet you are attempting to throw them back into an old wound. Absolutely disgusting, heartless and inhuman,” Bhuvneshwari wrote on her Instagram story.
“@sreesanthnair36 has rebuilt his life with dignity and beauty after every hardship he faced. As his wife and because the mother of his children, it’s deeply painful for our family to see this resurface after 18 long years,” Bhuvneshwari wrote.
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