Virat Kohli has gone through a transformation from fitness point of view, opines Gautam Gambhir

"That's why there was nothing personal and there never will be personal against Virat Kohli. And I say it again and again that what he's achieved, I am absolutely not surprised. That's the kind of player he was when we saw him early but what he's transformed into, I think from a fitness point of view and the way he's worked on his skills is tremendous,” Gambhir said to Jatin Sapru on his show ‘Over and Out’.

IPL had always witnessed some memorable or controversial moments. In the 2013 edition of the tournament, Gambhir and Kohli got into a verbal spat in a fixture between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Gambhir opened up onto the incident saying that sometimes personal relationships are out of the equation whenever a player is leading the side and he has no regret about the incident.

“Sometimes when you are leading the side, you have to do it even if you don't want to do it because you want your team to play the way you want. As a leader, sometimes you are not thinking about personal relationships with the other guy just because you are leading a team, you have to do it.”