<p>As Mumbai Indians’ Kieron Pollard struck a powerful boundary to deep mid-wicket off Chris Gayle to seal the match in favour of his team, man of the match Ambati Rayudu, who was on the other end, pumped his fist in delight.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rayudu stopped after taking two steps towards the sight-screen and celebrated animatedly, but he did so facing Royal Challengers Bangalore’s pacer Harshal Patel, and his ecstatic celebration seemed to have hit a wrong chord with Harshal, who was walking towards the pitch to shake hands with players, and the paceman reacted by charging towards Rayudu. <br /><br />Seeing this, Rayudu too started walking towards Harshal but by then players from either teams managed to pull them apart. Stand-in skipper Virat Kohli, who came to pacify the situation, himself got into a duel with Rayudu in the process, forcing their team-mates to separate them. <br /><br />“I wouldn’t like to comment about that. At the end of the day, it could have been a rush of blood but it didn’t look good,” said Kohli during the post-match press conference here on Monday.<br /><br />“I went up to the umpire and told him that he (Rayudu) had absolutely no reason to go up to a player after winning the match. He should have gone to the dugout and celebrated with his team-mates, rather than going up to a player and saying things to his face,” remarked the India batsman.<br /><br />“That’s what I told the umpire and that’s what I was trying to tell Rayudu. I was trying to tell him to calm down and trying to get the two together, but it was getting heated up at that time.”<br /><br />Pollard too played down the issue. “I hit the ball to mid-wicket and I was looking at the ball,” said the West Indian.“So I didn’t see what happened. That was part of cricket obviously, though it looked a bit ugly. But at the end of the day, emotions run high. There are quite a few teams fighting it out for the play-off spots and it is crowded table. You get these sort of things in these sort of games. It is all done and dusted,” he said.</p>
<p>As Mumbai Indians’ Kieron Pollard struck a powerful boundary to deep mid-wicket off Chris Gayle to seal the match in favour of his team, man of the match Ambati Rayudu, who was on the other end, pumped his fist in delight.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rayudu stopped after taking two steps towards the sight-screen and celebrated animatedly, but he did so facing Royal Challengers Bangalore’s pacer Harshal Patel, and his ecstatic celebration seemed to have hit a wrong chord with Harshal, who was walking towards the pitch to shake hands with players, and the paceman reacted by charging towards Rayudu. <br /><br />Seeing this, Rayudu too started walking towards Harshal but by then players from either teams managed to pull them apart. Stand-in skipper Virat Kohli, who came to pacify the situation, himself got into a duel with Rayudu in the process, forcing their team-mates to separate them. <br /><br />“I wouldn’t like to comment about that. At the end of the day, it could have been a rush of blood but it didn’t look good,” said Kohli during the post-match press conference here on Monday.<br /><br />“I went up to the umpire and told him that he (Rayudu) had absolutely no reason to go up to a player after winning the match. He should have gone to the dugout and celebrated with his team-mates, rather than going up to a player and saying things to his face,” remarked the India batsman.<br /><br />“That’s what I told the umpire and that’s what I was trying to tell Rayudu. I was trying to tell him to calm down and trying to get the two together, but it was getting heated up at that time.”<br /><br />Pollard too played down the issue. “I hit the ball to mid-wicket and I was looking at the ball,” said the West Indian.“So I didn’t see what happened. That was part of cricket obviously, though it looked a bit ugly. But at the end of the day, emotions run high. There are quite a few teams fighting it out for the play-off spots and it is crowded table. You get these sort of things in these sort of games. It is all done and dusted,” he said.</p>