IPL slapgate | ‘You hit my father…’: Harbhajan Singh reveals an heart-shattering encounter with Sreesanth’s daughter | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh revealed an emotional dialog with the daughter of his former teammate S Sreesanth.Harbhajan opened up about how he was left shattered after she advised him that she did not wish to speak to him as a result of he had hit her father through the 2008 version of the IPL. Harbhajan, enjoying for Mumbai Indians, had slapped Kings XI Punjab’s (now Punjab Kings) Sreesanth on the finish of a match.“One factor I’d wish to change in my life is that incident with Sreesanth. I wish to take away that incident from my profession,” Harbhajan mentioned whereas talking on R Ashwin’s YouTube present Kutti Tales.“That’s the incident I might change from my checklist. What transpired was unsuitable, and I shouldn’t have performed what I did. I apologised 200 occasions.“What I felt so unhealthy about was that even years after that incident, I’ve been apologising each alternative or stage I get. It was a mistake. All of us make errors, and we hope and check out by no means to repeat such errors.“He was my teammate, and we had been enjoying collectively. Sure, in that sport we had been opponents. But it surely shouldn’t have gone to the extent the place we behaved in such a fashion.

“So yeah, that was my fault, and the one fault of his was that he provoked me — however that’s okay, really. Nonetheless, what I did was not okay. I mentioned, ‘Sorry’,” Harbhajan mentioned.“What damage me much more, years later, was once I met his daughter. I used to be speaking to her with quite a lot of love, and he or she mentioned, ‘I don’t wish to speak to you. You hit my father.’ My coronary heart was shattered, and I used to be on the verge of tears.“I saved asking myself — what sort of impression have I left on her? She should be pondering of me in a poor mild, proper? She sees me because the man who hit her father.“I felt so unhealthy. I nonetheless apologise to his daughter, figuring out I can’t undo what occurred. I maintain telling her, ‘If there’s something I can do to make you’re feeling higher, or make you assume I’m not that type of individual, please inform me.’“I simply hope that when she grows up, she doesn’t see me in the identical mild. I hope she sees that her uncle is somebody who will at all times be there for her and assist her in any manner he can. That’s why I wish to take away that chapter,” Harbhajan mentioned.