Bollywood star Anushka Sharma took to Instagram to post a picture with the IPL 2026 trophy and her husband, Royal Challengers Bengaluru great, Virat Kohli. The Bengaluru-based franchise defeated the Gujarat Titans in a thrilling IPL 2026 Finale at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on May 31. With this, they became the only third franchise in the history of the tournament to defend the title after Chennai Super Kings and the Mumbai Indians. Following the victory, Sharma took to Instagram to post a picture with the trophy and Kohli, which broke the internet.
In the picture, Anushka and Kohli could be seen holding the trophy while the actor could be seen kissing the cricketer on his forehead. She accompanied the picture with a caption, “✌🏼❤️🙏,” symbolically representing the franchise’s second trophy. Considering how widely celebrated couple they make, the picture went viral in no time, and garnered over 4.5 million likes within three hours with around 75k comments and around 50k reshares.
We don’t have seven home games, we have 14- Virat Kohli thanks fans for support throughout IPL 2026 campaign
The legendary batter and former RCB skipper thanked the fans for their unwavering support throughout the season and said that the franchise doesn’t have seven home games but 14 because of how fans show up in every game. He also said that such kind of support is what the franchise has earned over the years and as a team, they would hope to make them proud every year. “I always say we don’t have seven home games. We probably have 14 because everywhere we go, we have fans cheering the team and, you know, really getting behind us,” Kohli said.
“GT is probably the home side, but you see 90 percent of the guys are RCB fans. So that’s what we’ve earned over the years and we just continue to make them proud and try to put our best foot forward. And yeah, their support is priceless and really happy that they can celebrate us lifting the trophy tonight and witness that,” he added.
Notably, Kohli finished fourth in the Orange Cap leaderboard with 675 games in 16 matches with 105* as his highest score. He maintained an average of 56.25 throughout the season and a strike rate of 165.84.
