[Watch] Bangladesh Cricket Captain Shakib Al Hasan Slaps Fan

New Delhi: Not long before the news of him winning a parliament seat in his country emerged, the captain of the Bangladesh men’s national cricket team, Shakib Al Hasan, triggered a huge controversy as he slapped a fan.

Known to lose his cool on the field as well, Shakib could be seen giving a hard slap to a fan while being surrounded by a huge number of people. Though it isn’t known exactly when and where the incident took place, a section of social media users claims that the altercation might have taken place about a week before the election results came out, NDTV reported.

It has been claimed that Shakib slapped the fan in the video during an incident at one of the polling stations. As the Bangladesh star arrived to cast his vote, he was surrounded by fans, and the situation got out of control after a fan tried to grab him from behind. Shakib then decided to slap the fan to handle the situation.

In the election, Shakib beat his rival by a margin of more than 150,000 votes in his constituency in the western town of Magura, the district’s chief administrator Abu Naser Beg was quoted as saying. “It was a landslide victory,” he said.