Ex-India Star Reveals His Daughter Refused To Greet Harbhajan Singh. Reason Is...
The former India cricketer has revealed that his daughter once refused to greet legendary spinner Harbhajan Singh.
- S Sreesanth's daughter once refused to greet Harbhajan Singh due to their past conflict
- In 2008, Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth after a physical altercation post an IPL match
- Sreesanth believes Harbhajan did not intend to hurt him deliberately
Former India pacer S Sreesanth has revealed that his daughter once refused to greet legendary spinner Harbhajan Singh. In 2008, after an Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) and Mumbai Indians, Harbhajan and Sreesanth had gotten into a physical altercation, which resulted in the former slapping the latter. Several pictures had circulated on social media where Sreesanth was seen crying after the incident. While the two, since then, have buried aside their differences, Sreesanth suggested the incident left a major impact on her daughter.
Sreesanth also admitted that Harbhajan didn't him intentionally that evening.
"When I told my daughter, 'This is Bhajji pa, he's played with me', she straight away said, 'No, no, I won't say hi'. I couldn't understand why. In school, there may have been the odd conversation about it. There are different stories doing the rounds. Then we tried explaining, but she said she still won't talk to him. The next day, when the legends tournament was going on, we explained that he was like our elder brother. I don't think Bhajji pa did that deliberately. It happened in the spur of the moment. It was just a learning experience for both of us," Sreesanth told cricket commentator Padamjeet Sehrawat on his YouTube channel.
Recently, Harbhajan, while speaking to former India all-rounder Ravichandra Ashwin, suggested that he would like to erase the incident from his life.
"One thing I'd want to change in my life is that incident with Sreesanth. I want to remove that incident from my career. That is the incident I would change from my list. What transpired was wrong and I shouldn't have done what I did. I apologised 200 times. What I felt so bad was even years after that incident, I have been apologising every opportunity or stage I get. It was a mistake," said Harbhajan on Kutti Stories with Ash.
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