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'Time is a great healer': Ravi Shastri On Virat Kohli-Naveen-Ul-Haq Patch Up 

image-lnmk09r2Virat Kohli and Naveen-ul-Haq acknowledge each other [X.com]

Cricket is a game, where on-field scuffles happen, which should remain only within the confines of the boundary line, and not go beyond that.

One of the most talked-about on-field altercations took place between Virat Kohli and Naveen-ul-Haq during Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, which fans expected to see reignited on Wednesday when India clashed against Afghanistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 encounter in Delhi.

However, fans were left baffled after both Kohli and Ul-Haq were seen hugging it out in the middle during India's chase at Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Former Indian player and coach Ravi Shastri has expressed his delight over this episode, saying that all matters were resolved on the field itself. Speaking to Star Sports, Shastri, who coached India from 2017 to 2021, stated that time heals everything, both players understood that.

Here's what Shastri said

“It is part and parcel of sports. Let bygones be bygones and you got to move on with time. Time is a great healer. Sport teaches you to embrace a lot of things that may not go your way. It was great to see that and great to see it coming on the giant screen time and time again for the public to take notice of the fact that it is sportsmanship at the end of the day. 

In the heat of the moment, they might have lost their cool, words might have been exchanged and other people might have got into the mix that happens in sports. But to see what happened today was very good. Six months down the line, they both realised that it could have been done in another way; let’s not take things to heart. If scores can be settled on the field for everyone to see, nothing like it,”

The Afghanistan pacer has been trolled on social media after his fight with Kohli, and since been associated with mangoes by netizens all over.