Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) mentor Gautam Gambhir had been concerned in an unsightly struggle after their IPL 2023 match on the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Monday. Both Kohli and Gambhir had been fined 100 per cent of their match charges for Level 2 breach of IPL’s Code of Conduct and the previous RCB captain then took a dig at his former Delhi teammate in an RCB dressing room video as nicely.
In video from contained in the dressing room shared by RCB crew on their social media accounts, Kohli is seen taking an obvious dig at Gambhir after the match. “If you can give it, you got to take it. Otherwise don’t give it,” Kohli is heard saying on the dressing room video.
The dig was an obvious reference to Gambhir blowing a kiss in direction of the Bengaluru after a nail-biting one-wicket win over RCB earlier in the IPL 2023 season. While the gamers had been shaking arms after the sport, there appeared to be phrases exchanged between LSG bowler Naveen-ul-Haq and Kohli. This was adopted by Gambhir pulling away his facet’s opening batter Kyle Mayers from a chat with Kohli.
All hell broke lose after that as Gambhir was seen approaching Kohli aggressively along with his gamers, together with the injured captain KL Rahul and Amit Mishra, restraining him. With the 2 dealing with off, Kohli was seen making an attempt to pacify Gambhir however reasonably than cooling off, the matter began to boil over earlier than Amit Mishra stepped in and separated the duo.
Kohli had appeared further animated all through the fielding innings as RCB efficiently defended 126 in an away match that had extra crowd help for the guests than the hosts. He was seen gesturing to the group after taking a catch to dismiss Krunal Pandya, presumably in response to Gambhir’s gestures in the final match between the 2 facet in Bengaluru which LSG received by 1 wicket.
Kohli went on so as to add that it was a extremely essential win for the RCB crew on the ‘road’. “It is a really important win on the road for us. The fact that we got more support than the home team was a really unbelievable feeling. It tells you all about how much we are liked as a team and how much the fans like us,” Kohli mentioned after the match in the RCB video.
“It is a really sweet win. It feels great for many reason but above all of them the character we showed to defend a small total, it was really special,” Kohli added.
RCB captain Faf du Plessis was happy to see the ‘aggressive’ Kohli pumping up the group in Lucknow. “It is the best version of Virat, to see him pumped up, that’s when he is at his best. It is awesome to be a part of it, my job is to keep things calm of the field which I thought we did really well,” Du Plessis mentioned after the sport.
