Kohli will get fired up when he looks at Kolkata's dug-out: Aaron

There's Virat Kohli in one corner. There's Gautam Gambhir on the other. Do you even need anything else? Just in case you do, it's an IPL match between the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Kolkata Knight Riders, a rivalry as famous for its on-field action as the ones away from it. Whether Gambhir-Kohli tussle has been the reason behind this rivalry or the other way around is a chicken-and-egg mystery that would be hard to decipher but one thing is for certain there is never a dull moment when KKR and RCB lock horns.

Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir during an RCB vs KKR IPL match(IPL)

The added incentive is that Gambhir is back in the KKR dugout. It was not as if the two were walking on a bed of roses when Gambhir was not a part of the KKR set-up - Gambhir and Kohli nearly came to landing blows during last year's IPL when the former was the mentor of the Lucknow Super Giants - but things are expected to be hotter when Gambhir donning the purple and gold.

After all, it was during an RCB vs KKR match at the Chinnaswamy way back in 2013 that the first public exchange between Gambhir and Kohli took place. After Kohli got out, Gambhir appeared to have said something to Kohli which did not go down well with the then RCB captain. He turned back and the duo came face-to-face for the first time on the cricket field. They had to be separated by Rajat Bhatia, a former KKR player.