Bhubaneswar, Aug 30: The infamous IPL 2008 “slapgate” incident between Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth, that left the latter deeply shaken, has now resurfaced dramatically after 17 years.

The footage was released during an episode of Michael Clarke’s Beyond23 Cricket Podcast.

For some, it was merely a resurfaced clip—but for others, it marked one of the darkest chapters in IPL history.

Soon after the video was released, Bhuvneshwari Sreesanth, wife of Former cricketer S Sreesanth, slammed ex-Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi and ex-Australian batter Michael Clarke for releasing the video.

Bhuvneshwari in her Instagram story, wrote: "Shame on you @lalitkmodi and @michaelclarkeofficial. You people are not even human to drag up something from 2008 just for your own cheap publicity and views. Both @sreesanthnair36 and Harbhajan have long moved on, they are fathers now with school-going children, and yet you try to throw them back into an old wound. Absolutely disgusting, heartless, and inhuman."

In another story, she pointed out how the footage's emergence has been "painful" for her family and added that both should be sued for not just hurting the players, but "scarring their innocent children who now have to face questions and shame for no fault of theirs."

During the podcast, Lalit Modi disclosed that the broadcast cameras had already been turned off after the match, which is why they missed the incident. Instead, it was one of his personal security cameras that recorded Harbhajan delivering a "backhander" to Sreesanth.

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Harbhajan has repeatedly expressed regret, calling it a moment he would erase if he could.

Recently, during an interview with Indian cricket legend Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan told ,"One thing I'd want to change in my life is that incident with Sreesanth. I want to remove that incident from my career. What transpired was wrong, and I should not have done what I did. I apologised 200 times. What I felt so bad about was that even years after that incident, I have been apologising every opportunity or stage I get. It was a mistake."

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