Last Updated: March 18, 2024, 00:14 IST
WPL 2024: Virat Kohli on a videa name with Smriti Mandhana after RCB’s win (X)
Virat Kohli acquired on a video name with Smriti Mandhana after Royal Challengers Bangalore clinched their maiden title by successful the WPL 2024.
Former captain of males’s group Virat Kohli made a video name to girls’s group skipper Smriti Mandhana following Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) historic win over Delhi Capitals within the remaining of the 2024 Women’s Premier League on Sunday.
RCB beat DC by eight wickets to clinch their maiden WPL title on the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
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A era of RCB followers have waited for this second, a wait that usually gave fodder to social media trolls and memes.
All they may present throughout these years have been three remaining appearances in 2009, 2011 and 2016.
But all that modified on Sunday night time. They have a trophy of their cupboard now.
The franchise shared a photograph on X, the place Kohli might be seen talking and congratulating RCB Women captain Smriti Mandhana for her group’s maiden WPL title by way of a video name.
Kohli additionally took his Instagram and lauded the ladies’s group by calling them ‘Superwomen’.
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RCB chased down a goal of 114 runs with 8 wickets and three balls in hand to safe the primary title within the historical past of their franchise.
The crowd on the Arun Jaitley Stadium erupted with chants of “Kohli Kohli” as quickly because the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) received the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 title, right here on Sunday.
The long-used phrase of ‘Ee Sala Cup Namde’, which interprets to ‘this year the cup is ours’, and the ridicule round it got here to an finish as a far-fetched dream lastly turned a actuality for RCB in successful their first-ever WPL title and develop into simply the second winners within the historical past of the competitors.
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Speaking to IANS, some followers believed that RCB would win the IPL 2024 title as effectively. “Now that the women won it, the men’s side too will lift the title,” mentioned one of many followers.
The followers who stuffed the Jaitley stadium to the rafters additionally made this festival-like event, consistently rooting for his or her favorite groups and dancing to the tunes of drums and music.
But in the long run, the crimson and gold brigade from the far South introduced up a preferred win.
(With inputs from Agencies)
