<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was fined on Tuesday for the second time in this IPL after a post-match altercation with former national team-mate Gautam Gambhir.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both were docked their entire match fee, the Indian Premier League said, while Naveen-ul-Haq was fined 50 percent of his for breaching the league's code of conduct.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kohli and Afghan bowler Naveen were seen having sharp words on the field during a tense match between Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kohli, who has often run into trouble with his aggressive approach, had to be restrained by opposition batsman Amit Mishra during the match. Bangalore eventually won by 18 runs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Afterwards, Lucknow's Kyle Mayers had to be led away from an exchange with Kohli before other players tried unsuccessfully to stop a visibly furious Gambhir, Lucknow's team mentor, from confronting him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gambhir and Kohli, who played together when India won the 2011 World Cup, had a shouting match before Bangalore skipper Faf du Plessis intervened.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former national team-mates were also involved in an ugly on-field exchange in a 2013 IPL match.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 41-year-old Gambhir has become an MP for India's Hindu-nationalist ruling BJP party since retiring from cricket in 2018.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was Kohli's second offence this season after he was fined 10 percent of his match fee for his conduct during Bangalore's loss to Chennai Super Kings last month.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite being one of the best batsmen of the modern game, "King Kohli" and Bangalore have never won the Indian Premier League.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He quit the RCB captaincy at the end of the 2021 season.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He went through an extended batting slump in 2021 and 2022, during which time he lost the Indian captaincy, one of the most high-pressure jobs in world sport.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kohli, 34, has spoken about his mental health struggles during his dry phase, including how he had been "snappy" to his Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has had numerous run-ins with opposing players and was once reprimanded after hitting a plastic chair with a bat following his dismissal during an IPL match. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>