Video: Virat Kohli's Shoe Gesture For LSG Star Naveen-ul-Haq Gets Twitter Talking

The IPL 2023 game between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Lucknow on Monday will be remembered for a long time for all the wrong reasons. Tempers flared and Indian cricket greats Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli could be seen talking in an animated manner after the match ended. What prompted the angry reaction is not fully clear, but many social media users pointed that the history between the two IPL franchises a reason behind the aggressive reaction. During their first leg match, which was a closely contested affair in Bengaluru, LSG players and mentor Gambhir could be seen giving aggressive reactions.

In Lucknow, in the return leg of their fixture on Monday, Kohli was quite animated every time a LSG batter was getting dismissed. He even got into a war of words with LSG's Afghanistan recruit Naveen-ul-Haq in  the 17th over. It is not clear from the visuals, who started the altercation and what was exactly said. Match visuals showed that Amit Mishra, the other LSG batter at the crease and one of the umpires, separated Kohli from Naveen, even as the former RCB skipper kept pointing towards his shoe while saying something towards the Afghanistan player.

Virat Kohli showing his show dust to naveen pic.twitter.com/W4kXNmuio5

Kohli always showed respect towards Afghans like Rashid Khan and Gurbaz who did the same thing too. I can bet , that Naveen for sure would've said something which made him do it that shoe gesture which he did last time in front of australian crowd. pic.twitter.com/tcYraAb23f

Naveen ul haq haven't done any mistake it was kohli who sledged, abused Naveen and even he showed shoe to him pic.twitter.com/QncFiHwmmm

Naveen ul haq teach us an important lesson no matter who is against you