Kings XI Punjab paceman S Sreesanth described Mumbai XI stand-in captain Harbhajan Singh’s alleged slap as “shake hand on a wrong side” and said he would not file a complaint against him.

When specifically asked by media if he was slapped by Harbhajan last night, Sreesanth said “not exactly”.
“Not exactly (slapped), it was a shake hand on a wrong side. I don’t want to file any complaint against him,” said Sreesanth, who refused to give details on the issue.

“Nothing much, nothing really happened, whatever has happened should stay on the field. He is like my elder brother. At the end of the day we are playing for the same country,” he said. Asked then what made him cry on the ground, the 25-year-old bowler “I had fever in the morning and I was feeling emotional. (But) I am not hurt and not at all worried. He (Harbhajan) is an elder brother,” he added.

Harbhajan also downplayed the controversy. “A lot of things happen in a family. We are part of one family. Whatever happened we have sorted out all, everything is fine now,” Harbhajan said before leaving for Mumbai with his team on Saturday morning.

Mumbai Indians’ captain Sachin Tendulkar, who is yet to play an IPL match because of injury, refused to talk about the issue. “I don’t want to talk about it,” he said.