Virat Kohli drops sitter vs SRH, Anushka Sharma's reaction goes viral - Watch

Virat Kohli dropped a straightforward drawback during the IPL 2026 opener betwixt Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad, but aboriginal made amends by taking the aforesaid batter’s catch.The driblet came successful the 18th implicit bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar erstwhile SRH batter Aniket Verma mistimed a shot. Kohli ran successful from long-on but the shot slipped done his hands and brushed his thigh earlier falling. Kohli appeared surprised, portion successful the stands, histrion and Kohli's woman Anushka Sharma reacted with laughter. Kohli aboriginal completed a drawback to disregard Aniket.

In the match, SRH stand-in skipper Ishan Kishan scored 80 disconnected 38 balls arsenic Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 201 for nine.

His innings included 8 fours and 5 sixes, and helium shared a 97-run concern for the 4th wicket with Heinrich Klaasen, who made 31.

RCB skipper Rajat Patidar opted to vessel archetypal connected a transportation that had not hosted top-level cricket for astir 10 months. The determination appeared justified arsenic Jacob Duffy returned figures of 3 for 22 successful 4 overs. The pacer utilized bounce effectively, troubling the apical order.Abhishek Sharma struggled to people freely and was dismissed for 7 aft attempting a propulsion shot.

RCB had earlier reviewed an entreaty for caught down against him successful the archetypal over, but it did not succeed.Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy besides fell attempting propulsion shots against Duffy arsenic SRH slipped to 29 for 3 successful 4.2 overs. They reached 49 for 3 astatine the extremity of the Power Play.Kishan countered the aboriginal setbacks, reaching his half-century successful 27 balls with a bound disconnected Suyash Sharma. He attacked Abhinandan Singh with a series of 6, 4, 6 and aboriginal deed 2 sixes successful an implicit disconnected Krunal Pandya.He moved to 80 with a changeable implicit 3rd antheral disconnected Abhinandan, but was dismissed soon after, caught by Phil Salt adjacent heavy backward point.His wicket slowed SRH successful the last overs. Aniket Verma made 43 disconnected 19 balls aft being dropped by Kohli connected 26, but the squad added lone 59 runs successful the past 5 overs.In reply, defending champions RCB completed the pursuit successful conscionable 15.4 overs. Devdutt Padikkal smashed 61 disconnected 26 balls, Kohli contributed an unbeaten 69 disconnected 38 balls, and Rajat Patidar added 31 disconnected 12 balls arsenic RCB won by six wickets.