Sreesanth was slapped by Harbhajan in the inaugural IPL season.
Former India pacer Sreesanth has made a startling disclosure, saying that his daughter once refused to greet the legendary spinner Harbhajan Singh.
Notably, Harbhajan had landed himself into a huge controversy after he slapped Sreesanth in the inaugural IPL season. The incident took place after a match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab [now Punjab Kings] back in 2008.
Several pictures and videos had surfaced on the internet where Sreesanth was seen crying after the incident. While the two, since then, have buried the hatchet, Sreesanth revealed the incident left a major impact on her daughter.
"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 interacting with former India spinner Ravichandra Ashwin on YouTube, suggested that he would like to remove that chapter 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.