IPL 2024 / 'Cheater-cheater' slogans against Virat Kohli..., when King's heart was broken

IPL 2024: Virat Kohli. The name which has been coming first and foremost on the lips of Indian fans for more than a decade. Not only in India, but also in foreign countries, Indian fans fill the stadium with the noise of 'Kohli-Kohli' whenever Virat Kohli comes to bat during any match or during his powerful innings. Kohli has been getting this love because of his tremendous performance for Team India. But can you imagine, there was a match when the Indian fans in the Indian stadium did not chant Kohli-Kohli but 'cheater-cheater', which broke Kohli's heart.

In IPL 2024, on Sunday, March 24, during the match between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians, the anger of the fans was seen against Hardik Pandya. The star all-rounder was the captain of Gujarat Titans till last season and had won the team title once. But last year, before the auction, he suddenly left Gujarat and returned to his old team Mumbai Indians. Gujarat fans looked very unhappy with this. Then when Mumbai removed Rohit Sharma and made Hardik the captain, the fans of Mumbai also got upset due to this. The effect of this resentment against Hardik was visible in the form of booing at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, where the audience used vulgar words against him.

When slogans were raised against Virat

Such booing for one's own country's player reminded of an incident 11 years ago, when Virat Kohli also had to face something similar. This incident happened in the IPL 2013 season, when Virat Kohli became the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore for the first time. During the match against Mumbai Indians, the spectators present at Wankhede Stadium loudly booed against Virat and even chanted 'cheater-cheater'. Also raised slogans.

8 years ago, Virat Kohli was booed and called a CHEATER by the fans in Mumbai. He said such incidents create hate amongst the players.

Now everytime he walks out to bat here, people cheer for him! ❤️

PS - I was there at Wankhede that day. But this isn't recorded by me. pic.twitter.com/Md27gQAfvf

— Vinesh Prabhu (@vlp1994) April 28, 2021

Kohli's heart was broken

This action of the audience broke his heart. When Virat Kohli was asked about this behavior in the press conference after the match, Kohli expressed surprise at this and said that the world does not end after IPL and when he plays for Team India, these same people will cheer him but It doesn't work like this. Kohli had then said that such actions increase hatred among players. By the way, it is also an amazing coincidence that in the same Wankhede Stadium, Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar's record by scoring his 50th century in the semi-final match during the World Cup 2023 and the entire stadium was shouting 'Kohli-Kohli'.