Star India batter Virat Kohli danced alongside Shah Rukh Khan in the IPL 2025 opening ceremony. The duo danced to the famous song ‘Jhoome jo Pathan’ at Eden Gardens and the video of the same went viral on social media. Ahead of that flamboyant KKR batter Rinku Singh too showed his moves on the song “Lutt Putt Gaya’.
Both Kohli and Rinku had a small chat with the Bollywood actor during the opening ceremony. During which, Shah Rukh asked Virat if the next generation, the bold generation would have a faster approach towards the game or if his generation, the gold generation still got what it takes to take the team over the line.
“The bold generation is coming very strongly but the old generation is still here. Ready to make an impact, still ready to play the game and hopefully keep creating more memories for all these lovely fans for years to come,” Virat said.
RCB won the toss and elected to bowl first
After the ceremony ended, Ravi Shastri hosted the toss, which RCB captain Rajat Patidar won and elected to bowl first. He explained that the surface felt hard and noted that chasing would be rather easy. Interestingly, Bhuvneshwar Kumar failed to get a crack into the playing XI. The team management put their trust in Yash Dayal, who was retained ahead of the mega-auction. Apart from that, former Knights Phil Salt and Suyash Sharma made their RCB debut alongside Krunal Pandya, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma and Rasikh Salam Dar.
On the other hand, Quinton de Kock and Spencer Johnson made their KKR debut. It's a like-for-like replacement for Salt and Mitchell Starc from IPL 2024. Now, it needs to be seen if KKR can manage to play a similar brand of cricketer without two of their top stars from the last season.