File photo of Naveen ul Haq and Virat Kohli
The battle between Virat Kohli and Naveen-ul-Haq became the talk of the town ever since it was announced that the two players will play against each other in a Cricket World Cup 2023 match for the first time since their infamous Indian Premier League. spat. Kohli and Naveen had a heated argument during an IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants that went down as one of the ugliest incidents in the history of the T20 league. Ahead of their clash on the international stage, Naveen’s IPL franchise, LSG, took to social media to reopen some old wounds with their ‘mango tweet’.
LSG wrote to X (formerly Twitter): “Aam kab nahi khana chahiye (when you don’t eat mango).
The tweet took fans back to the time when Naveen posted some pictures on Instagram, talking about mangoes when Kohli’s RCB was about to lose its IPL match to a team. The buzz around the topic grew so much that LSG had to mute the words “mango”, “mangoes”, “sweet” and “aam” on social media.
Now they’re back with a ‘mango’ tweet.
On the eve of the match against India, Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi was asked about the Kohli-Naveen battle.
“Look, as you said before, India is our home, it was our home, we played here and the people of India give a lot of love to the Afghan people.
“And what happened in the ground, that aggression comes to every player, it’s not about India and Afghanistan. So it can come to anyone. So this happened and still, if you see a lot of our players, we have idols of Indian teams like Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid,” he said.
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