IPL 2024

Watch: Virat Kohli avoids handshake with Sourav Ganguly after RCB’s win over DC

Royal Challengers Bangalore are back to their winning ways after defeating Delhi Capitals by 23 runs in match number 20 of IPL 2023. However, an instance took place after the match that took the internet by storm. DC mentor Sourav Ganguly jumped the queue to avoid handshake with the RCB batter Virat Kohli when all the players and support staff from both teams were shaking hands with each other after the match.

There had been various reports of the rift between Kohli and Ganguly during his tenure as the president of the Indian Cricket Board. Kohli stepped down from the captaincy of the Indian T20 team in September 2021. After that, the cricket board sacked him as the ODI captain. There were rumours that Kohli took that decision under pressure of the Cricket Board.

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Months later in January 2022, Kohli decided to step down as the Test skipper after a series in South Africa. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma took over the captaincy duties in all three formats. However, it looks like things are going right between Kohli and Ganguly even after more than one year of the controversy.

Kohli half-century led RCB to a match-winning total

Talking about the match, Kohli’s half-century took RCB to total of 174 runs for the loss of 6 wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The 34-year-old scored his third half-century of the season and got out after scoring 50 runs off 34 balls. Kohli also added 42 runs with the skipper Faf du Plessis for the first wicket in 4.4 overs, and 47 runs with Mahipal Lamror for the second wicket. After that, the handy knocks from Glenn Mazwell and Shahbaz Ahmed helped RCB to go past 170.

Chasing the winning total, DC had a disastrous start as they lost the first 3 wickets for just 2 runs. After that, the skipper David Warner got out in the sixth over and the score was reduced at 20 for 3. DC couldn’t make a comeback after that were restricted to 151 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.