10 off-field feuds between on-field teammates

#9 Harbhajan Singh - S. Sreesanth

Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth

Arguably the most famous scandal within Indian cricket, the "slapgate" made a huge uproar coming when it did in 2008. After a match between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians, the Indians skipper Harbhajan allegedly slapped the Punjab pacer when he went to shake his hands after the match. The cameras picked up Sreesanth crying after the incident, and it created a huge controversy at the time.

The mercurial off spinner was banned for the rest of the tournament by match referee Farokh Engineer who found the incident to have been totally "unprovoked".

The two players did turn up before the media later on and cleared the air. But things once again got ugly in 2013 when a boil-up between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir during that year's IPL lead to a media created comparison with the Harbhajan-Sreesanth incident.

Sreesanth had taken to Twitter then to make the following tweets:

"To be whr Iam ..I ve no complaints..but now I want u All to know the truth. He (Bhajji) never Slapped me.the video will show u all..wt he did.“All blamed me for getting emotional ..??c mon who doesn’t get emotional whn u know the person who u worship is a backstabbing person Nd.“I want the world to c it..Whn I went to shake hands afte the match..he had lost it..he had already planned to hit me(elbow me)all his anger” he said.

Ever since then it had been a downhill road for the now beleagured paceman (caught up in match-fixing scandal). The two have however appeared before media numerous time since.