“No one is out there to take abuses”

Brut India

When Gautam Gambhir opened up about his infamous spat with Virat Kohli after an IPL match between RCB and LSG in 2023.

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00:00Someone who has got more social media followers doesn't have any right to walk over someone.

00:04No one is out there to take abuses.

00:07I have all the right to defend my players.

00:09If someone has the right to give an abuse, he should have the courage to take it back as well.

00:30Naveen Ul Haq Controversy, please tell me what happened because you got involved.

00:48Everyone saw the visuals and it was a hot topic.

00:51But can you just clear the air, what happened?

00:54And eventually, I'm sure that things got okay.

00:57But see, I have said it once somewhere, where every individual irrespective of where he comes

01:06from, what level of a cricketer or a sportsman he is, how much social media followers he has,

01:12has the right to play for his team, to play for his jersey and more importantly,

01:20to play for his pride.

01:21And that is something which everyone has every right to.

01:25Or no one is out there to take abuses.

01:30As simple as it can get.

01:32If someone has the right to give an abuse, he should have the courage to take it back as well.

01:39So for me, I think once the game was done and dusted, you're allowed to be as aggressive as

01:44you want to be on the cricket field when the game is on.

01:47Absolutely spot on.

01:49I'm absolutely for it.

01:50Sledging, banter, everything.

01:51Robbers are not playing.

01:52Humans are playing.

01:53They've got emotions.

01:55Everything on the cricket field till you don't cross that line.

02:00You're absolutely fine to be as aggressive, as emotional, as much emotions you want to show.

02:05You have all the right to do it.

02:06But once the game is over, once you've shook hands,

02:09then you have no right to get into a heated argument or a confrontation.

02:14No way.

02:15That is getting personal.

02:17That is something which is not acceptable.

02:19And that is exactly which was not done.

02:22And that is exactly that has happened on that particular day.

02:25Because on the cricket field, you want to win for your team.

02:28You've got all the right to win for your team.

02:31But once the game is over, once you've won or once you've lost the game,

02:35if you then get into an argument or if you get into a sledging or something like that,

02:40then it means you're getting personal.

02:41And once you get personal, then you get personal.

02:43What was the need for you to jump in?

02:45Honestly, it was not about me involving myself.

02:50It was about, as I just mentioned it to you, once the game was over.

02:56And I had, till then it was fine.

02:59But once the game is over, then it was nothing between

03:02I have all the right to defend my players.

03:04As a mentor, no one can come and walk over my players.

03:07And I've got a very different belief.

03:09And I've lived with that belief.

03:11And I will continue to live with that belief that I will never leave anyone alone.

03:15That is how I've lived my life.

03:16And I will continue to live that.

03:18Till the time game was on, I had no right to interfere.

03:22But once the game was over, if someone still gets into a heated argument with my players,

03:27I've got all the right to defend them.

03:28And I will in future also, if something like that happens, I will defend that.

03:32As a franchise, it was important for us to have our own identity.

03:34It was important for us to make sure we tell all the other franchise

03:41that we are there and we mean business.

03:43That no one can come up, come to Lucknow and do whatever he wants to once the game is over.

03:49And we just kept looking at it and kept making those things happen.

03:55We cannot do that.

03:56And your relationship is back on track?

03:58Or is there still sort of unsaid thing?

04:00My relationship with everyone is exactly the same how it was.

04:03I have never taken any fight off the field.

04:06And I will never take it off the field as well.

04:08And this is also social media created that I have certain issues with certain players.

04:15Not at all.

04:15Why should I have?

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