As the matches of IPL 2023 are progress, the excitement is also increasing. With the progress of the season, the summer season is also progressing and now it seems that the heat has started increasing in the atmosphere as well. So far this season, there has been no major or controversial case of players' clash but on Sunday, the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai got heated, that too between two Delhi players, who are playing for different teams. Were.
The match was going on between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at Wankhede Stadium. The sun was shining bright in the sky and the temperature was also around 34 degree Celsius. The match on the field was going on evenly and then a terrible situation arose between KKR captain Nitish Rana and Mumbai spinner Hrithik Shokeen and the gesture reached to abuse by showing a finger and bat.
Hrithik showed a finger, and Nitish picked up the bat
Batting first, Kolkata scored 73 runs in 8 overs and lost 2 wickets. Captain Nitish Rana was at the crease. In the ninth over, Rana played the very first ball of Mumbai's 22-year-old spinner Hrithik Shokeen in the air but was caught out at the boundary. Here Nitish was returning towards the pavilion, but then Hrithik Shokeen went towards him and said something and Nitish stopped.
He also said something and immediately Hrithik started pointing fingers at him in anger. Here Nitish lost his temper and abused him while showing his bat.
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Some heated words exchanged between nitish rana and Hrithik shokeen never seen him like this before https://t.co/EmS8kDwnqJ — (@superking1815) April 16, 2023
10 years old memories fresh
Both the players came close and before things could get out of control, Mumbai captain Suryakumar Yadav and veteran leg-spinner Piyush Chawla intervened to separate the two. This ruckus between Nitish and Hrithik brought back memories of a similar fight about 10 years ago. Earlier in 2013 also a junior and senior player from Delhi had a fight. At that time KKR captain Gautam Gambhir and Royal Challengers Bangalore's young captain Virat Kohli clashed with each other.
Relationship between both not good?
Nitish Rana, 29, and Hrithik Shokeen, 22, are part of Delhi Cricket. Nitish Rana was also the captain of Delhi till a few seasons back. Both were playing together in the last Ranji Trophy season as well. During this time there were some reports of conflict between the two and claims were also made that the relationship between the two players is not good. However, it is not clear what is the issue between the two.