{"id":389159,"date":"2025-09-01T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:11:10","slug":"i-made-a-mistake-feel-ashamed-harbhajan-singh-on-slapping-sreesanth-calls-lalit-modi-selfish-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389159\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I made a mistake; feel ashamed&#8217;: Harbhajan Singh on slapping Sreesanth, calls Lalit Modi &#8216;selfish&#8217; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sreesanth-bhajji-0109-sd.jpg\" alt=\"'I made a mistake; feel ashamed': Harbhajan Singh on slapping Sreesanth, calls Lalit Modi 'selfish'\" title=\"Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth NEW DELHI: Former IPL chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lalit-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lalit Modi<\/a> has reignited controversy by sharing an old video of the infamous IPL slapgate incident involving <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harbhajan-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harbhajan Singh<\/a> and S <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sreesanth\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sreesanth<\/a>. The clip, posted on social media after Modi discussed it on Michael Clarke&#8217;s Beyond 23 podcast, has resurfaced nearly two decades after the incident and has drawn sharp criticism from both Sreesanth&#8217;s wife and Harbhajan Singh.Reacting strongly, Harbhajan accused Modi of acting out of personal interest by releasing the footage after so many years.<\/p>\n<p>EXCLUSIVE | Harbhajan Singh on Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, India vs Pakistan and more<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way the video has been leaked, it&#8217;s wrong. It shouldn&#8217;t have happened. They might have a selfish motive behind it. Something that happened 18 years ago, people have forgotten, and they are reminding people about it,&#8221; Harbhajan told Instant Bollywood.The former India off-spinner has long expressed regret over the incident and has publicly apologized to Sreesanth multiple times. The two players have since reconciled and moved on from the episode.&#8221;I feel bad for whatever happened. We were playing, and everyone had things going on in their mind. Mistakes happened, and we do feel ashamed about it,&#8221; Harbhajan admitted.Addressing the viral video further, Harbhajan acknowledged his mistake once again and emphasised that he has sought forgiveness.&#8221;Yes, the video has gone viral. It was an unfortunate incident, and I have said on many occasions that I made a mistake. Humans make mistakes, and I did one too. I have requested Lord Ganesh to forgive me if I make a mistake again. Mistakes happen,&#8221; he added.The controversial incident, which occurred during the early years of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indian-premier-league\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Premier League<\/a>, remains one of the most talked-about moments in IPL history. Despite both players having reconciled and moved past it, the resurfacing of the video has once again brought the unpleasant chapter back into the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth NEW DELHI: Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi has reignited controversy by sharing an old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,34925,134896,133559,134895,6667,134894,92468,79,34352,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-389159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-harbhajan-singh","10":"tag-harbhajan-singh-slaps-sreesanth-video","11":"tag-harbhajan-singh-sreesanth","12":"tag-harbhajan-singh-sreesanth-slapgate","13":"tag-indian-premier-league","14":"tag-ipl-slapgate","15":"tag-lalit-modi","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sreesanth","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115128977672927265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}