Indian Premier League 2025 is ready to get back on track on Saturday with a game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. The Indian Premier League 2025 is ready to get back on track on Saturday with a game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
RCB’s ace batsman Virat Kohli was also there with the team on Friday during its training session. The franchise even posted a video on social media that showed Kohli playing some fine shots. A report has now asserted that Kohli was not satisfied with the sound system being used at the venue when he was practising. Consequently, the player became irritated and the music had to be turned off, it added.
Almost an hour and a half into RCB’s practice session at the Chinnaswamy stadium on Friday, Virat Kohli walked in with the batting unit for a hit. A couple of hard straight drives and pull shots later, there was a brief interruption in play. He was not pleased. His entry into the practice ground, even in an empty stadium, coincided with the music system playing the RCB team song. He expressed his displeasure to sufficient people present around him to stop it and regain silence, punctuated by the ball hit and the surrounding chat,” reported Cricbuzz.
This will be the first game for Virat Kohli in competitive cricket since the player called time on his Test career. It came as a shock announcement to the cricketing fraternity that a player like Kohli, who held the format so close to his heart decided to quit it. He retired from T20Is in June last year after India clinched the T20 World Cup title.
According to AccuWeather, Bengaluru was likely to face a thunderstorm from 5 pm IST. Although 58 per cent of the city would be under rain at that time, this goes down to 51 per cent by 6 pm. 7 pm, the game’s toss-up time has a 71 per cent chance which decreases to 69%, 49% and 34% in the following three hours.
