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Kohli vs Ganguly NO MORE, Sourav Ganguly embraces Virat Kohli after DC vs RCB clash to end bad blood, Watch Video

Kohli vs Ganguly NO MORE, Sourav Ganguly embraces Virat Kohli after DC vs RCB clash to end bad blood, Watch Video

Kohli vs Ganguly: No more bad blood between two former India captains. Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly (Dada) have finally ended their animosity with a handshake and a hug. It was a much-awaited scene after the two walked separate ways during the last encounter at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. But at the end of DC vs RCB […]

Kohli vs Ganguly: No more bad blood between two former India captains. Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly (Dada) have finally ended their animosity with a handshake and a hug. It was a much-awaited scene after the two walked separate ways during the last encounter at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. But at the end of DC vs RCB clash at Arun Jaitley Stadium, the two put ended all rumours of a rift. DC thrashed RCB by 7 wickets with Virat Kohli getting a grand homecoming. Kohli scored 55 and also became the first batter to complete 7000 runs in IPL. Follow IPL 2023 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN.

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Kohli vs Ganguly: What is it all about?

The two former India captains don’t see eye to eye. While they enjoyed a good rapport and Ganguly has never said anything against Kohli in public, the RCB superstar felt wronged by him when Dada was BCCI President.

Kohli assumed that it was Ganguly who forced him out of ODI captaincy after he stepped down from T20 captaincy. Soon, Kohli quit Test captaincy as well to focus on his batting. But it all started when Ganguly told media that he personally asked Kohli not to quit T20 captaincy and Kohli refuted the claims.

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Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly enjoyed a good rapport before the fallout last year

Kohli, in a press conference before South Africa tour in 2021-22, indirectly called Ganguly a liar, saying he did not receive any call from anyone. He went on to add that he was informed about the captaincy change 90 minutes before team selection meeting.

But long before that, the rift was open when Kohli had a fallout with former India coach Anil Kumble. As the Cricket Advisory Committee of which Ganguly was a member, picked Kumble as the coach, it did not sit well with Prince of Kolkata. Even though he never made it public, inside BCCI’s power corridors, things were definitely not okay.

Former chairman of the selection committee Chetan Sharma called it an ego tussle.

“When the player becomes popular, he considers himself to be bigger than the board and thinks that nobody can touch him. He feels that cricket in India would stop without him. Kohli tried to hit back at the president at that time. It was a damaging controversy. It was a classic case of a player going against the BCCI. The president represents the BCCI, isn’t it? As to whose fault it was, that will be judged in time. But it was an attack on the BCCI. There has to be some respect for the chair,” Chetan Sharma said in a sting operation by Zee News.

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