{"id":21502,"date":"2024-03-22T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=425501"},"modified":"2024-03-22T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:04:19","slug":"virat-kohli-spotted-watching-rahul-gandhis-press-conference-ahead-of-ipl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/virat-kohli-spotted-watching-rahul-gandhis-press-conference-ahead-of-ipl-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli spotted watching Rahul Gandhi\u2019s press conference ahead of IPL Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-id=\"3ee2bc12-10d2-4f12-931a-0ea7e097b47a\">Owing to his cricketing prowess, it was least expected that Virat Kohli would be recorded watching a press conference in what fans have termed as perfect hilarious timing.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"3ee2bc12-10d2-4f12-931a-0ea7e097b47a\">The video, which has gone viral a few hours before tonight\u2019s IPL 2024 opener between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru was a press conference by Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi, with fans taking the moment to find humor in every situation.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"3ee2bc12-10d2-4f12-931a-0ea7e097b47a\">Kohli\u2019s love and knowledge of international affairs piqued fans\u2019 curiosity, making a light twist on tonight\u2019s IPL opener.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"3ee2bc12-10d2-4f12-931a-0ea7e097b47a\">Even before Kohli makes an appearance tonight on the cricket pitch, his presence is already being felt in off-field events, highlighting his persona away from the cricket ground.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"3ee2bc12-10d2-4f12-931a-0ea7e097b47a\">Meanwhile, Kohli takes the field in the IPL opener between CSK and RCB, and he has\u00a0 the opportunity to become the first batter in Indian cricket\u2019s history to score 12,000 runs in T20 cricket. At the moment, he has 11,994 runs in 376 matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It appears like Virat Kohli was watching the Press Conference of Rahul Gandhi, where RG is talking about the \"Freezing of Congress Bank Accounts\".<\/p>\n<p>As a democratic and secular citizen of India, Kohli is very aware about the unconstitutional \"Freezing of Bank Accounts\". <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F45MNr7ngH\">pic.twitter.com\/F45MNr7ngH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Akshit (@CaptainGzb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptainGzb\/status\/1771160218459664474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/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>Owing to his cricketing prowess, it was least expected that Virat Kohli would be recorded watching a press conference in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720,85],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","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=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}