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Gautam Gambhir-Virat Kohli fight during IPL 2013 match

Virat Kohli is not a normal Indian guy: Ray Jennings

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) coach Ray Jennings praised stand-in India skipper Virat Kohli’s leadership qualities and said that the 24-year-old "has all the makings of a great captain".

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Virender Sehwag is not finished: Navjot Singh Sidhu

England great Geoffrey Boycott might have written him off, but the out-of-form Virender Sehwag received support from former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu, who said the opener was far from finished.

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Sreesanth’s suicide mission: Dares BCCI to make controversial tape public and calls Harbhajan a “back-stabber”

For Shantakumaran Sreesanth, the words, that cruelly peeled off a five-year scab and brought blood gushing out of an ugly old wound, were not really slight. The vulgar, uncouth Gautam Gambhir-Virat Kohli spat provoked the media into drawing obvious parallels with the slapgate incident of 2008. And this in turn made the impulsive medium-pacer seek refuge in the secluded sanctuary of the Social Network, unburdening his soul with as many as 44 tweets over a two-hour period.

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Unfair to compare ‘Slapgate’ with Gambhir-Kohli spat: S Sreesanth

Unhappy with the comparison of yesterday's spat between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir to that of his own 'Slapgat' episode, cricketer S Sreesanth expressed his disgust on Twitter and requested Indian media to stop publishing such stories. Sreesanth expressed his feelings on the ‘Slapgate’ controversy also involving Harbhajan Singh, which has been around him since...

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Slapgate: Lalit Modi asks media not to harass him

Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi Friday asked the media not to harass him over the 'Slapgate issue between S Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh.

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Gambhir-Kohli on-field spat spur of the moment: Mitchell Johnson

Mumbai Indians pacer Mitchell Johnson felt the despicable on-field spat between rival captains, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli, could have been a spur of the moment incident arising out of healthy competition.

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IPL 2013: Kohli-Gambhir fight is ugliest possible advertisement for cricket

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli’s spat was uncouth and unsavoury, but perhaps ended up raising the viewership of IPL. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the ugly incident which brings back memories of the slap-gate incident in the same tournament few years back involving Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth.

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