Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan opened up about the fight he had with Virat Kohli while playing football during a warm-up session. Dhawan, 39, also spoke about how a run-out, also involving Kohli, made him ‘very angry’.

Recalling the incident on the Raj Shamani Podcast, Dhawan said: “Virat and I fought once. We shoulder-tackled each other once while playing football during a warm-up session. For a second, we got angry,” he said. “Slowly, we stopped playing football in warm-ups because people would fight. It happens, there are so many athletes, aggressive, each one is big in his own right…”

Asked about any moment in his career when he got angry on the field, Dhawan said: “I was in South Africa, Virat ran me out. At that time, I got very angry.”

Dhawan added his sharp reaction wasn’t j

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