The celebrations were in full swing after Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s historic victory in the 2026 Indian Premier League final. Defeating the Gujarat Titans by five wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, RCB secured their second consecutive IPL title. With this win, the franchise became only the third team, after Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, to successfully defend their crown.
They displayed a clinical performance, first restricting the Gujarat Titans to 155/8 before chasing down the target with five wickets in hand and two overs to spare. Virat Kohli played a key role in the win, remaining unbeaten on 75 after the bowlers set the tone for the chase.
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As the team and support staff celebrated the triumph, Anushka Sharma shared a joyful moment on her Instagram Stories featuring Virat Kohli. Kohli was spotted wearing a special T-shirt for the occasion, which featured the message, “One felt nice, we did it twice,” printed on the back which was a fitting nod to the team’s successful title defense. Video footage shared by RCB also showed Virat celebrating by grooving with batting coach Dinesh Karthik late into the night.
Talking about the hard-fought season and the team’s collective effort, Kohli expressed his joy to the host broadcaster. He said, “We’ve had to wait for so long and then just to have a group of guys where you feel like you’re stepping onto the ground, you don’t need to be the one to step up every time.”
Comparing this year’s final to the previous one, Kohli shared, “I said to a few of the boys that it doesn’t feel like the same pressure as last year, we knew what kind of ability we have in the group. We topped the table, there’s a reason why we got here first and we just said one thing, ‘if we stick to our cricket, if we execute our plans, we are the best team in the competition’ and there’s a reason why we’ve done well so far.”
He concluded by crediting the team’s consistency, mentioning, “In the group stage, we ended up topping the league stage and just the skill sets that we have, the maturity, the composure of the guys just shown through again tonight and it was a clinical performance brought throughout the tournament.”
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