Virat Kohli started the fight, players who were there they know how I dealt with the situation: Naveen Ul Haq Claims.

In the encounter between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) during the IPL 2023 season, tensions escalated post-match as an altercation unfolded between Virat Kohli, of RCB, and Naveen-ul-Haq, of LSG. Adding fuel to the fire, Gautam Gambhir, mentor of LSG, also found himself entangled in the commotion. Subsequently, all three individuals were fined by the IPL authorities for violating the league’s code of conduct. Recently, Naveen provided his account of the fight, shedding light on the sequence of events that occurred during the customary post-match handshakes. He placed the blame on Kohli, asserting that it was the RCB captain who instigated the scuffle. Naveen clarified that he had not engaged in any altercations during the match itself.

Naveen Ul Haq said “He shouldn’t have said all those things during the match and after it. I didn’t started the fight. After the match, when we were shaking hands, Virat Kohli started the fight. When you will look at the fines, you will understand, who started the fight, “I just want to say one thing I generally don’t sledge anyone, and even if I do it I would say it to the batters only when I am bowling because I am a bowler. In that match, I didn’t utter a single word. I didn’t sledged anyone,”.

Naveen added “Players, who were there they know how I dealt with the situation. I never lost my temper, when I was batting or after the match. What I did after the match is can be seen by everyone. I was just shaking hands and then he (Kohli) caught my hand forcefully and I am also human being and I reacted,