Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma: In the first match of the Indian Premier League 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore registered a spectacular victory, the hero of which was Virat Kohli. Virat, known as Run Machine, played a brilliant inning of 69 runs and played an important role in helping the team win the opening match. After the end of this match, when Virat was returning towards the dugout, he showered love on his wife Anushka Sharma present in the stadium and gave her a flying kiss, in response to which Anushka’s reaction has gone viral.

Virat Kohli played the match winning innings

Royal Challengers Bangalore, chasing the target of 202 runs set by Sunrisers Hyderabad, performed brilliantly and won the match by 6 wickets. Virat Kohli, who came to open this match, returned to the pavilion unbeaten after winning the match for his team. Kohli played a stormy innings of 69 runs in 38 balls, in which he hit 5 fours and 5 sixes, in which his strike rate was 181.58.

Virat gave flying kiss to Anushka Sharma

When Virat Kohli returned to the pavilion after leading Royal Challengers Bangalore to victory, he showered his love openly on his wife sitting in the stands. Virat gave a flying kiss to Anushka, to which Anushka also responded with a flying kiss and the happiness on her face was worth seeing. Not only this, when RCB won, Anushka also celebrated the victory fiercely. This lovely gesture of Virat and Anushka is being appreciated a lot on social media.

RCB won the opening match

The opening match of IPL 2026 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Hyderabad team, which came to bat first in this match, set a target of 202 runs thanks to Ishan Kishan’s captaincy innings of 80 runs, which RCB achieved on the third ball of the 16th over. With this, Bengaluru won the match by 6 wickets.