{"id":18197,"date":"2020-09-16T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48389"},"modified":"2020-09-16T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:47:30","slug":"ipl-2020-rcb-skipper-virat-kohli-enjoys-pool-day-with-his-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2020-rcb-skipper-virat-kohli-enjoys-pool-day-with-his-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2020: RCB skipper Virat Kohli enjoys pool day with his teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli took to Instagram to share pictures of his pool session with RCB teammates, captioning it, \u201cA proper day at the pool yesterday\u201d Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday was seen chilling out in the pool alongside teammates Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Pawan Negi, and Devdutt Padikkal ahead of IPL 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Staying inside a bio-secure bubble is possibly the biggest challenge the players competing in IPL 2020 are encountering which is why franchises like RCB are attempting everything they can to make everybody\u2019s stay as pleasant as possible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A proper day at the pool yesterday \ud83d\ude03\ud83c\udfca <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IWlHiDB9NC\">pic.twitter.com\/IWlHiDB9NC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1306112908653293568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Mumbai Indians will kick-off IPL 2020 by hosting 2019\u2019s runner-up Chennai Super Kings at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Kohli\u2019s Royal Challengers Bangalore will open their campaign against 2016 champions Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on September 21.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is yet to win an Indian Premier League (IPL) title is a sore point for fans. RCB fans have endured a difficult few years since their side finished second in 2016. In the three years since RCB has finished last in the league table twice. However, with a balanced squad, the franchise seems to be in good spirits ahead of IPL 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli shared pictures of him and his teammates relishing pool time after an exhausting training session ahead of the IPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[923],"class_list":["post-18197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-royal-challengers-bengaluru"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}