“You can’t treat people like crap” - Robin Uthappa slams Lalit Modi & Michael Clarke for releasing IPL 2008 slapgate footage

Former Indian keeper-batter Robin Uthappa has opened up on IPL founder and former Chairman Lalit Modi and former Australian captain Michael Clarke releasing the slapgate footage from the inaugural IPL 2008 season.

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Moving into the details, Modi and Clarke, who were part of the Beyond23 Podcast, went on to unveil the controversial footage in which Bhajji could be seen delivering a backhanded slap to Sreesanth during the post-match handshakes.

“That whole Slapgate thing that happened in the IPL. What the f*** man? How does someone get away with stuff like that? Now, imagine we put up a clip of something that an Australian did that was offensive, that was kept under wraps for the respect of that whole situation, to save the respect of that situation, which is an impulsive, bad decision that a human being made… Now that you have gone and interviewed someone, and you have got access to the file, do you think you have the right to publish it, put that into the world, and make those two people go through that whole emotion, that raw emotion, 20 years later?” Uthappa said on the Kim-Appa show with Jarrod Kimber. 

“Where is your sense of sensitivity and empathy for other people? We all make mistakes, but are we going to keep putting it out there to make people go through the embarrassment of the wrong choices the person has made? For me, it’s guys who aren’t brown skinned who get away with it a lot more. Today, we are speaking about Sunny G having an opinion on what other countries speak about Indian cricket. But what about this? Imagine the human implications of this… You can’t treat people like crap just because it’ll get you more views,” he added

However, Sreesanth and Bhajji have moved on from the controversial incident and have now become good friends. Most recently, Sreesanth’s wife Bhuvneshwari and Harbhajan also reacted to the controversial video footage, slamming Lalit Modi.

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