{"id":20254,"date":"2023-03-25T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=292168"},"modified":"2023-03-25T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:24:49","slug":"tata-ipl-2023-ab-de-villiers-and-chris-gayle-join-rcb-ahead-of-season-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2023-ab-de-villiers-and-chris-gayle-join-rcb-ahead-of-season-start\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2023: AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle join RCB ahead of season start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AB de Villiers, aka \u201cMr. 360,\u201d and Chris Gayle, aka \u201cUniverse Boss,\u201d have arrived in Bengaluru in preparation for Sunday\u2019s Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Unbox event. To make their arrival known, the RCB franchise posted images of the legendary batters on their social media accounts. RCB, the first IPL team to do so, will honour AB de Villiers and Gayle at the event for their contributions to the team while they competed in the IPL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mothership has landed. We've an \ud83d\udc7d reporting from the Bengaluru base. \ud83d\udef8<\/p>\n<p>Happy HOMECOMING, AB\u00a0de\u00a0Villiers! \u2764<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlayBold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlayBold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AERCB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0ca8\u0cae\u0ccd\u0caeRCB<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABdeVilliers17?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABdeVilliers17<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Wv9SmiOvr\">pic.twitter.com\/4Wv9SmiOvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCBTweets\/status\/1639514373944401921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the RCB Unbox event, fans will have the chance to watch their favourite players, such as Faf Du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, etc., during the team\u2019s first practise. The 2023 jersey will also be unveiled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Universe Boss has arrived at his favourite home. \ud83e\udd29 Entertainment has officially begun. \ud83e\udd73 <\/p>\n<p>Happy HOMECOMING, Chris! \ud83e\udd17<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlayBold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlayBold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AERCB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0ca8\u0cae\u0ccd\u0caeRCB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrygayle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@henrygayle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZmBGb80rlm\">pic.twitter.com\/ZmBGb80rlm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCBTweets\/status\/1639500457440866304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2023<\/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>AB de Villiers, aka \u201cMr. 360,\u201d and Chris Gayle, aka \u201cUniverse Boss,\u201d have arrived in Bengaluru in preparation for Sunday\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[596,593],"class_list":["post-20254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ab-de-villiers","tag-chris-gayle"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}