IPL 2023: WATCH – Kohli gives death stare to Ganguly; DC’s Director of Cricket jumps queue to avoid handshake with RCB batter

Kohli was sacked from India's ODI captaincy during Ganguly's tenure as BCCI President.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli and Delhi Capitals’ (DC) Director of Cricket Sourav Ganguly didn’t shake hands after the two team’s IPL 2023 match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Saturday (April 15).

Kohli produced a half-century (50 off 34 balls) as RCB returned to winning ways after losing back-to-back matches at the hands of KKR and LSG.

After the match concluded, players and support staff members from both sides were shaking hands with each other as per the norm. During the handshakes around, Ganguly was caught on camera jumping the queue to avoid Kohli and it got all recorded in a video doing rounds on social media.

Here’s the video:

Notably, Kohli was sacked from India's ODI captaincy during Ganguly's tenure as BCCI President.

Another clip from the game went viral on the internet, in which Kohli can be seen giving a stare to Ganguly after taking the catch of Aman Hakim Khan at long-on. This incident occurred in the 18th over of Delhi’s innings.

Here’s the video:

Coming to the match, RCB registered a comprehensive 23-run victory over DC. Riding on Kohli’s 34-ball 50, the Bangalore-based franchise posted 174/6 on the board.

In reply, the visitors managed 151/9 in their allotted 20 overs. Manish Pandey top-scored with 38-ball 50 but he didn’t get enough support from the other end.

Vijaykumar Vyshak (3-20), Mohammed Siraj (2-23) and Wayne Parnell (1-28) starred with the ball for RCB, sharing six scalps among them.