Virat Kohli and his team Royal Challengers Bangalore started the IPL 2025 season with a great win. Bengaluru won by 7 wickets in the first match of the 18th season of the league, dusting the defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets. Bengaluru won this victory at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata and that too in front of his superstar co-owner Shahrukh Khan. Virat Kohli's best performance made it even more special, who said something special to Shah Rukh before the match started and then proved it to be true against Kolkata.

The 18th season of IPL started on Saturday 22 March at the Eden Gardens. Kolkata and Bengaluru also had an opening ceremony before the commencement of the match, which was hosted by Shah Rukh Khan. After the performance of Shreya Ghoshal, Disha Patni and Karan Aujla, Shah Rukh called Virat Kohli on stage, who is part of this league since the first season of IPL and playing in the 18th consecutive season. Apparently Kohli is one of the most senior players in this league and Shah Rukh talked to him about it.

Shah Rukh called new and young players the 'bold generation' of IPL, while senior players including Virat were called 'Gold Generation'. After this, Shah Rukh asked Virat on the same question whether the bold generation is more effective now or the gold generation still stamhes in this league. On this, Virat praised the youth and said that the new generation players are obviously taking this league forward and playing fearlessly. But after this, Virat said that 'Gold Generation' still rests here and is trying to make more and more memories with fans by making its impact.

(The news is updated)