{"id":20048,"date":"2022-05-28T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=225516"},"modified":"2022-05-28T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:40:28","slug":"ipl-2022-virat-kohli-pens-down-a-touching-message-to-the-12th-man-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-virat-kohli-pens-down-a-touching-message-to-the-12th-man-army\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: Virat Kohli pens down a heartfelt message to the \u201812th man Army\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Virat+Kohli+\">Virat Kohli,<\/a> the former captain of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Royal+Challengers+Bangalore+\">Royal Challengers Bangalore<\/a>, wrote an emotional message for the supporters on his Twitter page. He expressed gratitude to the \u201c12th Man Army\u201d and management for their unconditional support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you win, and sometimes you don\u2019t, but the 12th Man Army, you have been fantastic, always backing us throughout our campaign. You make cricket special. The learning never stops. A big thanks to the management, support staff and all the people who are part of this amazing franchise. See you next season,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli had a disappointing IPL season this year, as he was dismissed three times for a golden duck. He only hit 341 runs in 16 games this season, averaging 22.73 runs per game.<\/p>\n<p>In the Qualifier 2 match on Friday, Royal Challengers Bangalore were dethroned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajasthan+Royals\">Rajasthan Royals,<\/a> losing by seven wickets. Virat Kohli, on the other hand, has been unable to impress with the bat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Faf+du+Plessis\">Faf Du Plessis<\/a>, the RCB captain, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Glenn+Maxwell\">Glenn Maxwell<\/a> both struggled with the bat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajat+Patidar+\">Rajat Patidar<\/a> was the lone survivor, scoring 58 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sometimes you win, and sometimes you don't, but the 12th Man Army, you have been fantastic, always backing us throughout our campaign. You make cricket special. The learning never stops. (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mRx4rslWFK\">pic.twitter.com\/mRx4rslWFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1530542487856484352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A big thanks to the management, support staff and all the people who are part of this amazing franchise. See you next season \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCBTweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RCBTweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlayBold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlayBold<\/a> (2\/2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1530542492025704450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their chase for the prestigious trophy, Bangalore set a 158-run target for Rajasthan Royals in qualifier 2, who won with 11 balls to spare with to Jos Buttler\u2019s unbeaten 106.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[923],"class_list":["post-20048","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\/20048","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}