Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma share adorable flying kiss moment after RCB vs SRH clash

Royal Challenger Bengaluru (RCB) won the IPL 2026 opener in style against the Sunrisers Hyderabad. Virat Kohli again came under the spotlight as he took the team safely over the finish line. Kohli remained not out on the crease for 69 runs to confirm the victory for the team, which is playing as the defending champions for the first time in the history of the league.

After the match, Virat Kohli offered his wife Anuskha Sharma a flying kiss. While Kohli was celebrating the moment, Anuskha was clapping for his husband from the stands of the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The adorable moment between Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma did not escape the ever-curious eyes of the cricket fans on social media platforms.

Watch the Adorable moment between Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma here:

MOMENTS OF THE DAY. ❤️😍

- Virat Kohli’s flying kiss to Anushka Sharma & Anushka’s kiss to Virat. pic.twitter.com/K428puKVl7

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Quick-fire knocks from Padikkal and Patidar dismantled the SRH bowling attack

The match was truly entertaining for the fans as both of the power-palaced sides scored over 200 runs in their respective batting phases. Using Devdutt Padikkal as an impact batter was probably the master stroke of the match from the RCB team management. He came and simply took off the required run rate pressure from the team.

Padikkal, the batter who scored tons of runs in the recent past in domestic cricket, smashed 61 runs, facing only 26 balls. The number three batter of RCB's line-up smashed a total of eleven boundaries, including seven 4s and four 6s, which took his strike rate to 234.62. The skipper, Rajat Patidar, under whose captaincy Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifted their maiden IPL trophy in the last season, scored 31 runs with a strike rate of 258.33.

Virat Kohli remained firm on the deck like an experienced navigator

Batters like Padikkal and Patidar got the free licence to go for every ball, because Virat Kohli was standing on one end of the crease, from the beginning. When SRH pacer Jaydev Unadkat took Phil Salt's wicket early in the second innings, RCB was on only 9 runs. After that, when Padikkal took the burden on his shoulder, Kohli remained calm on the deck. Steadily, the Indian batting maestro increased his run rate, and when the match reached its final stage, Virat was 69 not out off 38 deliveries, strike rate 181.58. The innings was supported by five 4s and five 6s.

In the first innings of the match, when RCB was the fielding team, Virat dropped a catch of SRH batter Aniket Verma, who scored 43 off 18. The former skipper dropped a catch of Verma, which took everyone by surprise, as Kohli has one of the most safe pair of hands across the globe. The catch drop could prove costly, but the batting line-up of the IPL 2025 winning team was good enough to surpass every hurdle in the match. Jacob Duffy, the New Zealand international pacer, who made his IPL debut tonight for RCB, was named Man of the Match for the bowling figure of 3/22 (4).

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