Q rounds up the blogging take on the slap. Soulberry reconsiders the big previous Bhajji incident with Symonds. Nestaquin is rightly sympathetic to Sreesanth:

Spare a thought for the victim of his wrath and disrespect, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, who wept openly after the violent snub. I doubt that it was the sting of a slap in the face that caused his tears but the shock and emotional embarrassment of being struck without warning by one of his national team-mates publicly. It obviously cut deep.

Sreesanth is no saint on the field yet by all reports he is a gentleman on the other side of the boundary and it is a mark of his congenial character that he has forgiven Harbhajan unconditionally. Despite the goodwill, I suspect, much like another of Harbhajan’s victims, Andrew Symonds, he just wishes it could all be forgotten as he now has to relive the incident time and time again as it is played out by the administration and the media in the weeks, months and years ahead.

And Homer links to one side of the insider's story:

After the match, when both the teams were shaking hands with each other Sreesanth met Bhajji. Bhajji twisted Sreesanth’s ears for behaving in an appropriate manner. Sreesanth did not respect a senior player like Bhajji and used nasty language for him also. Seeing this Bhajji lost his cool and with his hands he asked Sreesanth to go away. Unfortunately the hand hit Sreesanth below his eyes. He thought that Bhajji wanted to slap him on his temple. Sreesanth couldn’t tolerate this misbehavior and started howling. Standing next to him V R V Singh didn’t know how to stop Sreesanth. He hugged Sreesanth and the TV cameras starting covering it. The whole world then only saw Sreesanth’s tears.