Kohli vs Gambhir: Old burden leads to another round of ‘teenage’ bust-ups Cricket News
Both don’t believe in throwing punches and have been carrying their own baggage of mutual dislike for each other.
During their latest face-off, there was liberal use of North Indian profanity Which sounds similar to the name of English cricketer ‘Ben Stokes’.
Opinions were divided after the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Supergiants on Monday night when a brawl broke out between the two World Cup winners.
Some found it childish, others liked the idea of spice and intense rivalry, while staunch believers of the ‘gentleman’s game’ thought it could have been avoided.
So what happened on Monday night in Lucknow?
An eyewitness inside the team’s dugout briefed PTI about the incidents.
“You saw on TV that Mayer and Virat were walking together for a few meters after the match. Mayer asked Kohli why he was constantly abusing him and Virat in turn asked why he (Mayer) was ‘calling’ him. Why are you staring’? Earlier (Amit) Mishra had complained to the umpire that Virat was constantly abusing Naveen (ul-Haq), who is the number 10 batsman.
He said, “Gautam sensed that things could turn ugly when Virat made a comment, pulled the mayor away and asked him not to talk. The heated conversation that followed seemed a bit childish.” “
“Gautam asked ‘Kya bol raha hai bol’ (What were you saying?) and Virat replied, ‘I didn’t tell you anything, why are you entering'”.
“Gautam replied, ‘Tune agar mere khiladi ko bola hai, matlab tune meri family ko gaali diya hai.’ (Then you take care of your family).
“To ab tu mujhe sikhayega.. (So now I will have to learn from you…) was Gambhir’s last reply before parting ways.”
Eyewitnesses said that while it was tense and far from a free-for-all, it all seemed a bit childish on both ends.
It was a ‘deja vu’ moment for all those who had seen the two in a close brawl in 2013 when Kolkata Knight Riders were playing Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Kohli was then a superstar-in-the-making and Gambhir, out of the Indian team, was a shrewd captain at KKR.
As of 2023, Gambhir remains a firebrand who is a TV pundit and also the mentor of a franchise where he is the remote-control captain.
Ditto for Kohli, who remains captain rcb In the soul Although on paper, Faf Du Plessis He is the captain.
“It’s a bit of a complicated relationship between the two. Gautham is not a bad person, but not the easiest person to handle either. He had no right to point fingers at Chinnaswamy’s crowd, who swear by Virat’s name. Is.”
A former India player, who shared the dressing, “Now here, Virat got a chance to make a splash, and he did. He knows that Gautam has been a staunch critic of his captaincy and even that one step Won’t back down.” Room with both, said.
As Kohli said in one of the RCB videos, “You have to take it, otherwise don’t give it.”
Both the players have been fined their full match fees, although no one knows how the mentor’s penalty is calculated by the BCCI.
It also didn’t help that Kohli has 55.4 million followers on Twitter alone, while the BJP MP is also no luminary, with 12.5 million followers of his own.
People close to him are either trying to be his lion or creating a false narrative. Like one of RCB’s social media content team asking regular skipper du Plessis about Kohli’s “aggression” bordering on rudeness. It is the kind of aggression that the former India captain admitted felt “fake”.
But the social media team of RCB trying to justify it is making more fool of itself.
On the other hand, Gambhir’s political secretary Gaurav Arora wrote from his Twitter handle @gauravbir786, ‘Telling your trolls to abuse you. Gautam Gambhir‘s daughters are an unacceptable low. Matches will come and go. Show some class Kohli!”
In the end, it was another unwanted bust-up and a rivalry from which no one came out smelling of roses.
