Top 5 fights between cricketers in IPL history

#1 Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir, IPL 2012

An ugly verbal spat between two former India and Delhi teammates

The altercation

Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir are temperamental personalities and both don't shy away from articulating their emotions on the field. Both of the protagonists have been involved in various on-field spats with the opposition number over the year.

Nevertheless, it escalated to monstrous proportions when the former Delhi and India teammates got involved in a heated argument in the 2012 edition of the IPL.

Virat Kohli had just hit Pradeep Sangwan for two consecutive sixes and in an attempt to make it three in a row, he perished. KKR were elated to see the back of Kohli.

However, the exuberant celebrations didn't bode well with the RCB skipper as he stormed into the KKR team with a barrage of verbal volleys to which KKR captain Gambhir responded with gusto even and the cricketers almost went to blows when Manoj Tiwari and others.

The fallout

Both the players were charged with Level 1 Offence for using obscene language and inappropriate gestures.