{"id":48131,"date":"2026-04-11T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48131"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:36:07","slug":"ipl-2026-rr-vs-rcb-did-rr-admin-take-a-dig-at-virat-kohli-rajasthan-royals-post-sparks-rcb-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-rr-vs-rcb-did-rr-admin-take-a-dig-at-virat-kohli-rajasthan-royals-post-sparks-rcb-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 RR vs RCB: Did RR admin take a dig at Virat Kohli? Rajasthan Royals post sparks RCB fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RR post sparks controversy as rain delay message turns into viral \u2018number 18\u2019 debate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Royals triggered an unexpected social media storm after a light-hearted post during a rain delay in Guwahati turned controversial in their clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>With rain interrupting play, RR posted on X: \u201cChalo we\u2019re back with another game Pick a number between 1-99 and we\u2019ll name a cricketer who dons that jersey.\u201d The post was intended to engage fans while conditions improved.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the replies and RR\u2019s response quickly drew attention when a user picked \u201c18\u201d and the RR admin replied with Smriti Mandhana. While Mandhana also wears a \u201c18\u201d jersey, many fans linked the exchange to \u201cnumber 18\u201d, which has long been associated with Virat Kohli, and expected his name instead.<\/p>\n<h3>Social media banter spills into match day tension<\/h3>\n<p>The exchange sparked strong reactions from RCB fans, who saw it as unnecessary, while others called it harmless banter that was blown out of proportion. The debate intensified online even as the match continued in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the post added to the noise, coming during a rain break in a high-profile game where Kohli had earlier scored 32 off 17 balls before Vaibhav Sooryavanshi took control of the chase, RR win by 6 wickets.While RR\u2019s intent was fan engagement during the delay, the reaction turned it into one of the talking points of the match day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RR post sparks controversy as rain delay message turns into viral \u2018number 18\u2019 debate Rajasthan Royals triggered an unexpected social\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":48132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131","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\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48135,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131\/revisions\/48135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}