While the Indian Premier League (IPL) has risen into cricket’s richest league and become a global sporting phenomenon, one incident from IPL 2008, the first edition, was kept under wraps for a long time. In a match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab in 2008, MI’s Harbhajan Singh had slapped Punjab pacer S Sreesanth, in an incident that went on to be known as ‘slapgate’. Now, IPL founder and former chairman Lalit Modi has released the raw, unseen footage of the incident that took place between Harbhajan and Sreesanth.
The famous slap in my podcast with @MClarke23 on #beyond23 – part 3 of my podcast. I love @harbhajan_singh – but after 17 years it was time to reveal it. Lots and lots more to reveal but that will now only be in the movie that’s in the works supervised by @SnehaRajani on my… pic.twitter.com/EhPaIRAZ0F
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) August 29, 2025
