“Now go back to…”: Virat Kohli’s savage Instagram story for Phil Salt breaks internet

Virat Kohli and Phil Salt have been a formidable opening duo in IPL 2025, and after winning the IPL championship, Kohli sent an important message to his partner on social media.

The duo contributed 664 runs together at an average of 47.42 for their franchise. The Indo-English pair has been a key to the success of RCB this season as they broke the jinx of winning the IPL title for the first time in 18 years.

Virat Kohli’s message to Phil Salt

In the midst of the celebration, Virat Kohli shared a lighthearted story featuring his opening partner Phil Salt. Kohli and Salt were posing with the IPL trophy, and Kohli captioned the photo with an alluring message to Salt.

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Virat Kohli wrote, “Well done, partner. Now go back to the real stuff and get ready for changing diapers,” and also tagged Salt in his Instagram story.

Salt has become a father just now during the IPL, and Kohli congratulated him on his Instagram story by mocking him to change diapers now.

Salt played a key role in the RCB’s success as he gave a fiery start to his team, most of the time, and set up the innings well for the middle-order batters. Despite being and wicket-keeper, Salt displayed his fielding skills as well in this season, and his fielding was also an add-on to his key role in RCB’s campaign in IPL 2025.

Here is the post:

Virat Kohli's Instagram story for Phil Salt. 🤣❤️ pic.twitter.com/S0ueW6uCGc

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) June 4, 2025

Virat Kohli-Phil Salt duo in IPL 2025

One of the best opening pairs in this IPL season was Kohli and Salt, as both contributed 664 runs together at a dazzling average of 47.42. Salt didn’t play in a few matches due to health reasons, but thus he scored 403 runs in IPL 2025.

Kohli scored 657 runs in 16 matches. Salt played with an aggressive approach while Kohli supported him well and took his team into the death overs.

Phil Salt showed great athleticism in the IPL 2025 final as well as he sent back Priyansh Arya with a spectacular catch at the boundary and tilted the match in favour of his team.

Phil Salt’s commitment to RCB

The English batter was not seen in Ahmedabad the day before the big final because of his birth of his child, Salt had gone back to England. But his dedication was par above as he arrived back in India on the morning of match day.

Salt’s explosive start was the standout performance in this year’s campaign. He gave a mini-start to his team in the final, as well as scored 16 runs in just nine balls.

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