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[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

#TATAWPL 2024 Champions. 🌟
#TATAIPL 2025 Champions. 🌟🌟
#TATAWPL 2026 Champions. 🌟🌟🌟
#TATAIPL 2026 Champions. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

We asked ourselves a question last year- can we go back to back?

Here we are again 🏆🏆❤️❤️

@RCBTweets

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

Ee Sala Nu Cup Namdu 🌟🌟

[ātman @iam_str]

🏆♥️⭐️ @imVkohli @RCBTweets

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣… 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙚!” 👑

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

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[ātman @iam_str]

🏆⭐️⭐️😭♥️💥@imVkohli @RCBTweets

[Cricket Picture that Goes Hard @HardCricketpix]

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[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

Ee Sala Nu Cup Namdu! ❤️‍🔥🏆

Welcome to the RCB Era, ladies and gentlemen! 😎

You waited, you believed and you stayed… this one’s for you again, 12th Man Army! 🥹❤️

#PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2026

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

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[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞-𝗧𝗢-𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 #𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗣𝗟 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟��. ❤️‍🔥

Every chant. Every cheer. Every moment of support from the 12th Man Army brought us here. 🥹❤️

One last dance awaits in Ahmedabad. ✊

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

At this point, fireworks just arrive with him. 🎆❤️‍🔥

[Chirag Mehta @imchikachirag]

Nineteen seasons.

Nineteen summers.
Nineteen auctions.
Nineteen fresh squads.
Nineteen times people said, “maybe this year age catches up.”
Nineteen times bowlers made plans.
Nineteen times fans carried hope into another IPL.
And through all of it, one man remained.
Virat Kohli in red and gold.
We have seen entire IPL eras rise and disappear in front of our eyes. Legends changed teams. Captains changed cities. Generations changed. The league itself transformed from fearless cricket into data-driven cricket into power-hitting madness.
But one thing somehow stayed untouched.
A man walking out for RCB with impossible expectations on his shoulders.

And still delivering.

Not for 2 seasons.
Not for 5.
Not for a purple patch.

For nearly TWO DECADES.

People will talk about the numbers.
The thousands of runs.
The hundreds.
The chases.
The consistency.
The records.

And yes, they matter.

But statistics alone cannot explain what Virat Kohli has meant to this league.

Because numbers do not capture loyalty.
Numbers do not capture pressure.
Numbers do not capture what it means to carry the hopes of one franchise for 19 straight years in the loudest cricket tournament on earth.
Twelve different IPL seasons with 400+ runs.
Think about that for a second.
In a format designed for chaos…
in a league designed to expose weakness…
through injuries, form slumps, captaincy pressure, scrutiny, trolling, expectations and changing teammates…

he still found a way to show up.

Again.
And again.
And again.
Tonight was not just another innings.
It was another reminder.
That greatness is not only about peaks.
It is about returning.
Every single season.
Every single time people doubt.
Every single time the game evolves.
Every single time younger stars arrive.
And still being the standard.
There are players with bigger power.
Players with crazier strike rates.
Players with shorter bursts of brilliance.

But there has never been another Virat Kohli.

Because nobody has blended hunger, skill, fitness, passion, loyalty, pressure and longevity quite like this man.

For RCB fans, he is not just a player anymore.
He is memory.
He is childhood for one generation.
Adulthood for another.
And inspiration for the next.
Someday the IPL will continue without him.
RCB will continue without him.
New stars will come.
New heroes will rise.

But there will always be a silence when fans realize they once lived in an era where Virat Kohli opened the batting for RCB every summer.
And made it feel normal.

Love you @imVkohli to the moon and back.

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

That Knock: 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮 🙌👑

#PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2026

[Sun Pictures @sunpictures]

Happy Birthday to the man who redefined mass, #AjithKumar a very happy birthday! 🔥

#HappyBirthdayAjithKumar #HBDAjithKumar #HBDAK