Gautam Gambhir, on the Naveen Ul Haq-Virat Kohli incident at the IPL, says, "No One Can Walk Over My Players."
On the cricket field, Gautam Gambhir is a fiery character. Be it his gritty display for the Indian cricket team or his standing up for his players as mentors, he has never shied away from walking the aggressive path. Recently, Gambhir was in the news for his on-field spat with his former Indian cricket teammate Sreesanth during a Legends League cricket match. Before that, the one much-publicized on-field altercation involving Gautam Gambhir was with Virat Kohli.
In that incident, which happened after an IPL 2023 match between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gautam Gambhir could be seen talking quite aggressively to Virat Kohli. The latter, playing for RCB earlier, was involved in a spat with LSG's Naveen Ul Haq.
Gautam Gambhir was asked on a podcast, “Naveen Ul Haq controversy, please tell me what happened?"
To this, Gautam Gambhir said, "As a mentor, no one can come and walk over my players. I have a very different belief. Till the time the game was on, I had no right to interfere, but once the game was over, if someone still got into a heated argument with my players, I had all the right to defend them.”