Gautam Gambhir Statement On Virat Kohli: Former KKR captain Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli are known for their aggressive style. Whether it is batting or captaincy, both these players appear very enthusiastic. Due to this aggressive style in IPL 2013, both these players clashed on the field itself. This clash of these two made a lot of headlines. Now Gautam Gambhi has spoken openly on this issue. Gambhir says that as a captain, sometimes you have to do this even if you do not want to.
On Jatin Sapru’s YouTube show ‘Over and Out’, Gambhir said “It’s okay, I’m absolutely fine with it and I expected him (Kohli) to be like that. I am like that. I love that competition, I’m competitive. People are like. MS Dhoni is a competitor in his own way, Virat in his own way. Sometimes when you are captaining a team, you have to do it even if you don’t want to do it because you want to that your team plays the way you want. As a leader, sometimes what you’re not thinking about is the personal relationship with the other person, just because you’re leading a team, you have to ”
In this match between RCB and KKR, when Balaji dismissed Kohli, these two players clashed on the field itself. Even the player and the umpire had to come between Gambhir and Virat Kohli.
He further added, “So nothing was personal and will never be personal against Virat Kohli. I say over and over again what he has achieved, I am not at all surprised. He is the kind of player that we had in the beginning. But from a fitness perspective, what he has turned into and the way he has worked on his skills is tremendous.”
While Gambhir has won the title twice for KKR under his captaincy, Kohli failed to win the title for RCB. Kohli has relinquished the captaincy of Bangalore after the 2021 season and now Faf du Plessis has been appointed as the new captain.