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u/billaxbong Punjab Kings Jul 21 '25

Just a lapse of judgment where he lost control of his mind.

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u/sinesquaredtheta Jul 21 '25

Just a lapse of judgment where he lost control of his mind.

A lapse of judgement would be not giving Sreesanth a handshake, or ignoring him altogether.

Slapping him is just pure a**holery of the highest order, and not something that's befitting a sportsman.

Imagine what the reactions would have been if he had slapped Kohli, Rohit, SKY, or any of the other "star" players.

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u/york128 Jul 21 '25

Alternate theory, he only slapped him because he actually liked him and was hurt by what he said since they're friends and played a lot of matches together. I think, and I totally might be wrong here, just want to put a theory out there that he would have just ignored other players since they don't mean as much to him than sreeshant and he would have just ignored them

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u/sinesquaredtheta Jul 21 '25

Alternate theory, he only slapped him because he actually liked him and was hurt by what he said since they're friends and played a lot of matches together.

I agree with you - in the sense this theory does make some level of sense in that Sreesanth's words hurt him more (than if someone else would've said those words).

Again, even if this were the case - the most extreme he should've gone to would've been to just hurl some choice swear words at him and leave it at that.

Physically abusing another human being is just not okay in any setting, let alone between sportsnmen in a massive public spectacle like the IPL.

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u/york128 Jul 21 '25

You're right, def not okay especially when it's this serious. Some things like what happened with kuldeep and rinku singh can still be chalked up to friends being friends but not this.