Indian head coach Gautam Gambhir made an honest admission about his relationship with Virat Kohli on Friday (May 23), saying ‘everything’ was fine between them and that their relationship went beyond the ‘TRP, views and promotions’ that are used to dramatise it. Gambhir and Kohli’s relationship has made headlines since their on-field spat in 2013 when they were playing for Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, respectively. Ten years later, they had a heated argument again in 2023 with Gambhir as the mentor of Lucknow Super Giants. Naturally, the broadcasters, the fans often pit them against each other when their teams play. However, now they have reunited in the India team and have shared some wholesome moments, too. “I love that when it’s all for the TRP, it’s all for the views, it’s all for the promotions,” Gambhir said in an exclusive interview with CNN-News18. “When you’re playing for two different teams, everyone has a right to fight for their own team. Everyone has the right to fight for their own jersey and have the right to come back in a winning dressing room. So, for me, I think it remains very simple — when you’re playing for the same team, you try and get the results. If you’re playing against each other, you have all the right. Everything is fine between me and Virat. In fact, everything is fine between me and everyone in that,” he added. When asked whether Gambhir has ever followed an on-field exchange like that with a dinner or a drink to bury the hatchet in his career. The India head coach was honest again. “I won’t want to mention the name,” he said. “I’ve had some really heated exchanges on the cricket field during a game of cricket, and we’ve had dinner. And we’ve had dinner after that, both of us have had dinner after that once the game is over, because we know that whatever has happened on the cricket field remains on the cricket field. Once you cross that line, you cross that, and once the game is over, everything comes back to how it was.” Gambhir added that he has never found it difficult to move on from on-field troubles.