Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir usually are not IPL captains anymore, however they had been nonetheless concerned in a heated trade after Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs. It was over 10 years after their altercation within the IPL throughout RCB's match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. Kohli now performs for RCB as a specialist batter, and Gambhir is retired and works as the worldwide mentor at LSG.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.Seconds later, Gambhir was seen approaching Kohli aggressively together with his gamers, together with the injured captain KL Rahul, restraining him. Once the 2 bought in one another's faces, Kohli appeared to be attempting to pacify Gambhir together with his hand on Gambhir's shoulder, however the chat quickly turned hostile and veteran spinner Amit Mishra stepped in between the 2 to separate them from one another.Kohli had appeared additional animated all through the fielding innings as RCB efficiently defended 126 in an away match that had extra crowd assist for the guests than the hosts. He shushed the gang after taking a catch to dismiss Krunal Pandya, which could presumably have been a response to Gambhir shushing the Bengaluru crowd after a last-ball win within the earlier fixture between the 2 sides. He even had a heated trade with Naveen through the seventeenth over of the chase when the sport was all however over. Mishra and an umpire needed to intervene then.

The match definitely appeared to have the air of a grudge match, which spilled onto the social media of each the perimeters. An RCB workforce insider instantly retweeted LSG's tweet from after the final match that mentioned, "Ladies and gentlemen, this how you… PLAY BOLD." It appeared to be a mockery of RCB's catchphrase. After this win, RCB's official deal with tweeted Kohli's photograph shushing the gang with the caption: "What goes around comes around."