Akshay Kumar attended the Women's Cricket World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, UK, to cheer for the Indian team. The actor soon found himself in the eye of a storm after he posted a picture of himself waving the Indian flag upside down.

`It was unintentional on Akshay's part. Since the flag was kept folded, while opening it, he held it upside down by mistake, when those pictures were clicked. And during moments of rush, Akshay uploaded them on his social networking sites,` says a friend.

But when Akshay realised his mistake, he deleted all the pictures from his social networking portals. But by then, the Twitterattis got after the actor to lambast him for the mistake.

Instead of defending himself, Akshay showed his maturity by apologising through Twitter. `Extending my sincerest apology for violating the code of conduct for the tricolour. Didn't mean to offend anyone, the picture has been removed (sic),` the actor wrote on his Twitter account.

`You won't see many big names apologising so readily but since Akshay felt that he could have hurt some people's feelings, and especially since it involves the national flag, he didn't think even for a second before saying sorry,` says the friend.