NEW DELHI: Apart from soaring sixes, cartwheeling the stumps, smashing yorkers into the woodwork, creamy drives and brilliant catches by fielders, Indian Premier League The field has also seen many fights.If we talk about on-field altercations – Harbhajan Singh slapping S Sreesanth in what is known as ‘Sleep Gate’, Kieron Pollard throwing his bat at Mitchell Starc, Ravichandran Ashwin ‘manacing’ Jos Buttler, and Gautam Gambhir’s heated spat with Virat Kohli – all these have been witnessed by Richleigh. However, the cricketers later decided to bury their animosity, patch things up and move forward with mutual respect.One such recent example was a verbal altercation between Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi during the Delhi Premier League. Both players have now patched up, and credit goes to them Rishabh Pant.
Ahead of the IPL 2026 clash between Lucknow Supergiants and Delhi Capitals at Ekna Stadium in Lucknow, LSG captain Pant played the role of peacemaker between Rana and Rathi.“So kahe ja hai hai? Bus ho gaya, (Where are you going? Enough done,” Pant can be heard saying to his co-star Rathi in a video shared by LSG).A smiling Rana was also heard saying to Rathi, “In that case I will have to sit with you.”In the clip, Delhi Capitals spinner Kuldeep Yadav is seen stepping up and hugging Pant, saying “bohat gyan di diya”.Then Pant added, “That’s the problem with both.”The two cricketers – Rana and Rathi – were seen burying the hatchet and sharing a laugh with each other ahead of the LSG vs DC clash on Wednesday.Both Lucknow Supergiants and Delhi Capitals have had torrid campaigns in IPL 2025, missing out on playoff qualification. Delhi fell short, finishing fifth and just one point off the top four, while Lucknow finished seventh after six wins from their 14 league matches.Teams:Lucknow Supergiants: Rishabh Pant (C&WK), Nicholas Puran (WK), Josh Ingles (WK), Aidan Markram, Matthew Bretzke, Himat Singh, Akshat Raghunshi, Mohammad Shami, Avish Khan, Mayank Yadav, Enrich Nortje, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Akshul Singh, Prince Rash, Akshul Singh, Prince Singh Naman Tiwari, Mitchell Marsh, Venindu Hasranga, Ayush Baduni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed and Arshin Kulkarni.Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Rana, Abhishek Poral (WK), Ajay Mondal, Ashutosh Sharma, Dushmantha Chamera, Karuna Nair, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, David Kumar, Tristan Kumar, Tristan Bean, Milgram, Starc. Duckett, Aqib Nabi, Patham Nissanka, Langi Ngidi, Sahil Parekh, Prithvi Shaw and Kyle Jamieson.
