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Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli exchange flying kisses in viral video after RCB secure a spot in IPL qualifier. Watch | Bollywood News

Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli exchange flying kisses in viral video after RCB secure a spot in IPL qualifier. Watch | Bollywood News

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Clips of Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli exchanging flying kisses after Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s win over Lucknow Super Giants are being widely shared online. The moment came right after RCB’s six-wicket victory in the IPL 2025 clash at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium on Tuesday. Anushka was in the stands, cheering for Kohli and RCB as they edge closer to the playoffs. After the match, Kohli was walking off with his teammates when he spotted Anushka in the crowd. He paused, smiled, and blew her a few flying kisses. She responded the same way. A video capturing the moment, shared on X, was captioned: “I hope when love finds me, it looks like this ANUSHKA SHARMA x VIRAT KOHLI ”. I Hope When love finds me, it looks like this 🥰 ANUSHKA SHARMA 💞 VIRAT KOHLI 🥰 (Credit : @IPL)#RCBvsLSG pic.twitter.com/wojK0PIthX — Kriti Sharma (@Kriti_Sharma01) May 27, 2025 Also Read | Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli spent just 21 days together in the first 6 months of marriage: ‘I actually calculated’ Anushka has been a regular presence at …

‘Virat’s business as usual’: Mo Bobat says Kohli focussed on what he can achieve with RCB in IPL | Ipl News

‘Virat’s business as usual’: Mo Bobat says Kohli focussed on what he can achieve with RCB in IPL | Ipl News

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With Virat Kohli set to play his first competitive match on Saturday after announcing his Test retirement, Royal Challengers Bengaluru team director Mo Bobat said that the star batter still retains the competitive edge and is looking forward to what he can achieve with RCB in the IPL. Kohli’s Bengaluru will host defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders at the Chinnaswamy with RCB needing a win to qualify for the play-offs. “The first thing to say is Virat’s business as usual, as he always is. There’s enough of the public and the nation’s attention on him, and he doesn’t want any more of that. He’s ambitious about what we can achieve this year with RCB and that’s what he does,” said Bobat during a pre-match press conference. “He should be incredibly proud of what he’s done as a Test player for India. RCB as a franchise, we are all incredibly proud of what every one of our players does for India, but in particular him. To play 120 plus Test matches and to score nearly 10,000 …

Virat Kohli’s loneliness: How stardom extracted a heavy price of friendships from him | Cricket News

Virat Kohli’s loneliness: How stardom extracted a heavy price of friendships from him | Cricket News

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During this IPL season, Virat Kohli caught up with some old friends from his under-19 days. He had a reunion with UP opener Tanmay Srivastava and Baroda pacer Ajitesh Argal. Both are IPL match officials now but when in teens they all were in the same victory frame as their skipper Kohli when India won the under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. They spoke warmly, shared a meal, relived the old times but there was something missing. It wasn’t really like old times. Kohli would recall meeting his pals in a recent RCB podcast – Mindset of a Champion – with seasoned cricket host Mayanti Langer. The riveting conversation centres around the aspects of Kohli’s life that have stayed hidden despite the 24×7 media scrutiny on him. In the close-to-an-hour long interaction, Kohli takes one up those lofty stairs of the ivory towers where the superstars reside. Spoiler alert this is not a ‘good home’ tour about flashy chandeliers and cushy carpets. This is a discomfiting peek into the glitzy world that often gets lonely and …

Which AR Rehman song is on Virat Kohli’s listening loop these days and what is its Dhoni connection? | Ipl News

Which AR Rehman song is on Virat Kohli’s listening loop these days and what is its Dhoni connection? | Ipl News

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On Thursday, Royal Challengers Bangalore put up an Instagram post with Virat Kohli. And of course it has gone viral. He is seen talking about a song that he is listening on a loop these days. He pulls out his phone even as he says “You will be shocked”, and says in Tamil “Nee Singam dhan” (you are a lion) and flips the phone towards the camera to reveal the album cover. It’s a song from the 2023 Tamil movie ‘Pathu Thala’ (10 heads), starring Silambu Arasan and the music was composed by AR Rehman. The lyrcis to that particular song was penned by Vivek and sung by Sid Sriram. The song’s lyrics are powerful, reflecting the resilience of a lion-hearted person who stands tall in the face of adversities and challenges. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 🎶 “You’ll be shocked”, he says. We’re grooving too! 🥰 pic.twitter.com/NlZTNAZbjD — Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) May 1, 2025 The opening stanza has these lyrics: ‘Suttri Nindru Oore Parkka Kalam Kanban/ Punnagaiyil Senai …

Virat Kohli surpasses David Warner’s record in IPL 2025 during PBKS vs RCB

Virat Kohli surpasses David Warner’s record in IPL 2025 during PBKS vs RCB

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Most IPL 50-plus scores: The Indian Premier League has seen the best international batters dominate the charts over the year, plundering tons of runs for their respective the sides across seasons. Some of the most consistent batters have piled on their runs on the back of huge knocks, comprising centuries and half-centuries. David Warner and Virat Kohli rank among the most successful batters in the league, winning the Orange Cap on two different occasions each. While Warner won the award first in 2015, Kohli followed up with a record-breaking 2016 season where he smashed 973 runs, still the record for any batter in a season. Kohli also holds the record for the most centuries in the league, having smashed eight hundreds, while Warner has racked up 62 fifties alongside four tons. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma are the next batters on the list, with 53 and 45 fifty-plus knocks respectively. Story continues below this ad Earlier in the tournament, Kohli reached the milestone of 13,000 runs in his 386th T20 innings, making him the second-fastest batter …

‘Hopefully we break the jinx today’: Virat Kohli on ending RCB’s winless run vs MI at Wankhede since 2015 | Ipl News

‘Hopefully we break the jinx today’: Virat Kohli on ending RCB’s winless run vs MI at Wankhede since 2015 | Ipl News

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With Royal Challengers Bengaluru winless against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede since 2015, star batter Virat Kohli, who smashed a 42-ball 67 on Monday said that he’s hoping that they break the jinx, just like they had ended their Chepauk drought against Chennai Super Kings last week. ‘Hopefully we break the jinx today,” Kohli said at the mid-innings chat after RCB posted 221/5 against the Mumbai Indians. Talking about RCB’s counterattack after Phil Salt was sent back early and his knock, Kohli reveals how he and the team went about it. Story continues below this ad “That was pretty good. After losing a wicket on the second ball, we countered pretty nicely. Dev played a brilliant impact knock for us, really changed the momentum towards us. I got a few going as well. That partnership was really important for us to set that total on the board. My strength is to get my touch and feel of the ball early on, then I can play the shots I that I want to. I tried to …

‘Virat Kohli has adjusted his style, but he will have big impact in IPL 2025’: Kane Wiliamson | Ipl News

‘Virat Kohli has adjusted his style, but he will have big impact in IPL 2025’: Kane Wiliamson | Ipl News

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Virat Kohli’s tweaked batting approaches may have changed the style of his batsmanship, but not his impact and hunger, feels former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. The Kiwi batting great said that he has little doubt that Kohli will have a “big impact” on the fortunes of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2025 after a successful ODI stint with India earlier this month. Kohli displayed glimpses of his old form during the recent Champions Trophy, scoring over 220 runs in the tournament and was adjudged Player of the Match in the semifinal against Australia. The 36-year-old will once again lead the RCB batting line-up from the opening slot. Kohli had also won the Orange Cap with 741 runs in 15 innings last year. Story continues below this ad Kohli, a part of the first RCB XI that featured in the inaugural IPL Match against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008, will walk out for the Bengaluru side yet again in the first season-opening contest between the sides in 17 years at the Eden Gardens on Saturday. …

‘Please just stop doing that’: Why Virat Kohli texted AB de Villiers to avoid ‘Ee Sala Cup Namde’ chant for IPL 2025 | Ipl News

‘Please just stop doing that’: Why Virat Kohli texted AB de Villiers to avoid ‘Ee Sala Cup Namde’ chant for IPL 2025 | Ipl News

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As the IPL 2025 season approaches, South Africa batting legend AB de Villiers has revealed that he received a stern message from his long-time Royal Challengers Bengaluru teammate Virat Kohli not to utter the franchise’s famous slogan of hope and anticipation, ‘Ee Sala Cup Namde’, anywhere in public. First raised as promotional material ahead of an IPL season seven years ago, the chant, from the perspective of RCB fans, has not tilted the team’s fortunes in converting an IPL title. While they finished runners-up in 2009, 2011 and 2016, RCB, alongside the Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings, remain the only three sides since the league’s inception in 2008 to not earn the IPL trophy. Hope has turned to exhaustion and frustration and de Villiers said that he has received a direct message from RCB’s former captain Kohli to stay away from the ‘This year the cup will be ours’ chant. “I honestly, said those words the other day and I got a direct message from Virat, and he said, please just stop doing that now. …

‘Virat Kohli did not want to..’ Kohli’s new team-mate at RCB spills beans on captaincy saga | Ipl News

‘Virat Kohli did not want to..’ Kohli’s new team-mate at RCB spills beans on captaincy saga | Ipl News

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While Virat Kohli captained Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2013 to 2021, the former Indian captain left the IPL team’s captaincy in 2021 citing workload management. With Royal Challengers Bengaluru letting go of long time regular Faf du Plessis in the 2024 mega auction, there were speculations that the team management could hand the captaincy back to Kohli. With the IPL side announcing Rajat Patidar as captain, RCB new pick Jitesh Sharma has shared how he felt that Kohli did not want captaincy again and he got to know about Patidar’s captaincy announcement like others. “No, I found out about Rajat Patidar’s captaincy when everyone else did. But when you play a lot of cricket, you can sense these things. Like Virat Bhai did not want to captain this side. I don’t know why he did not want to captain. I am not part of the management side of things. When I retire from cricket and come into management, I will tell you such things. But for now, Virat bhai had not been captaining since the …

‘Virat doesn’t need a captaincy title to lead,’: RCB team director Mo Bobat | Cricket News

‘Virat doesn’t need a captaincy title to lead,’: RCB team director Mo Bobat | Cricket News

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After Royal Challengers Bengaluru announced Rajat Patidar as their new captain on Thursday, team director Mo Bobat said Virat Kohli has a natural penchant for leadership which will benefit the new skipper, adding that the former skipper does not need a ‘captaincy title’. “Virat was an option (for captaincy). I know that the fans would have probably leaned towards Virat in the first instance. But my point on Virat would be that Virat doesn’t need a captaincy title to lead. Leadership, as we’ve all seen, is one of his strongest instincts. I think it just comes naturally to him. He leads regardless. But we’ve seen a lot of love for Rajat too,” Bobat said in a media interaction. “He (Virat) leads, as an example. The volume of runs and the strike rate that he scored last year was so important for us. Everyone in the field knows that they’ve got to be up to their standards because of him. Everyone’s seen how much he likes a fight and a scrap,” he said. Story continues below …