Kohli vs Gambhir: Old baggages lead to another round of 'juvenile' bust-up

The ugly bustup between Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli was quintessentially Delhi and waiting to happenBoth dont believe in pulling punches and have been carrying their own baggages of mutual dislike for each otherDuring their latest faceoff there was liberal use of the north Indian profanity which sounds similar to the name of English cricketer Ben StokesAlso ReadIPL 2023 Points Table Clinical Titans top list five teams tied on 10 points after RCB vs LSGOpinions are divided among those who were present after the IPL game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants on Monday night when the altercation took place between the two World Cupwinning playersSome found it juvenile a few others liked the spice and the idea of intense rivalry while the firm believers of the Gentlemens Game thought it could have been avoidedSo what happened in Lucknow on Monday nightAn eyewitness who was in one of the team dugouts gave a lowdown of events to PTIYou saw on TV that Mayers and Virat were walking side by side for a few metres post match Mayers asked Kohli why was he constantly abusing them and Virat in turn questioned why was he Mayers staring at him Before that Amit Mishra had complained to umpire about Virat constantly abusing Naveen ulHaq who is a No 10 batterGautam sensing that things could turn ugly pulled Mayers and told him not to have a conversation when Virat made a comment The heated exchange that followed seemed a bit juvenile he saidGautam asked Kya bol raha hain bol What were you saying and Virat replied Maine aapko kuch bola hi naahin aap kyon ghus rahein ho Why are you coming in between when I havent told you anythingGautam responded Tuney agar mere player ko bola hai matlab tune meri family ko gaali diya hai You abused my player and thats like abusing my family and Virats reply was Toh aap apne family ko sambhal ke rakhiye Then you take care of your familyGambhirs final reply before they were separated was Toh ab tu mujhe sikhayega So now I have to learn from youThe eyewitness said that while it was tense and a blow away from turning into a freeforall it all seemed a bit juvenile at both endsIt was a deja vu moment for everyone who had seen the duo nearly come to blows in 2013 when Kolkata Knight Riders were playing Royal Challengers BangaloreKohli was then the superstarinthemaking and Gambhir out of the Indian team was a shrewd captain at KKRCut to 2023 Gambhir remains a firebrand who is a TV pundit and also mentor of a franchise where he is the remotecontrol skipperDitto for Kohli who remains the skipper of RCB in spirit On paper though Faf du Plessis is the captainIt is a bit of a complicated relationship between the two Gautam is not a bad human being but not the easiest person to handle He had no business to gesture that finger on lips to the crowd at Chinnaswamy which swears by Virats nameNow here Virat got a chance to show one upmanship and he did He knows that Gautam has been a staunch critic of his captaincy and even he wont take a step back a former India player who shared the dressing room with both saidAs Kohli said in a RCB video You got to take it otherwise dont give itBoth players have been fined their full match fees although no one knows how a mentors penalty is computed by the BCCIIt also didnt help that Kohli has 554 million followers on Twitter alone while the BJP Parliamentarian is no light either with 125 million followers of his ownThe people in their close quarters are either trying to lionise them or create a false narrative Like one from RCBs social media content team asking regular skipper du Plessis about Kohlis aggression which bordered on boorishness This is the same kind of aggression which the former India skipper admitted that it felt fakeBut the RCB social media team in trying to justify it is making themselves look more sillyOn the other hand Gambhirs political secretary Gaurav Arora from his twitter handle gauravbir786 wrote Asking your trolls to abuse Gautam Gambhirs daughters is an unacceptable low Matches will come and go Show some class KohliIn the end it was another uncalled for bustup and a rivalry from which no one came out smelling rosesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever