Viral moment! Virat Kohli erupts after Travis Head’s stumps are shattered

NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Rasikh Salam Dar’s solemnisation said it each aft helium sent Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Travis Head’s stumps cartwheeling during their IPL 2026 clash astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium connected Friday.After being hammered for 3 consecutive boundaries by Head, Rasikh responded with a superb yorker that shattered the left-hander’s stumps.

The young pacer past gestured with his close manus adjacent his ear, seemingly asking the assemblage to rise the sound erstwhile again aft silencing them with the important breakthrough.The cameras besides panned towards Virat Kohli, who was visibly pumped up and celebrated Head’s dismissal adjacent much aggressively than the bowler himself.Head departed aft scoring 26 disconnected 16 balls, an innings laced with 5 boundaries.

Earlier, SRH skipper Pat Cummins won the flip and opted to bat archetypal against RCB.Returning to the playing XI aft missing the erstwhile crippled owed to concussion, RCB skipper Rajat Patidar replaced the injured Jacob Bethell, portion SRH retained the aforesaid combination.RCB are the defending champions, having beaten Punjab Kings successful the IPL 2025 final.

In IPL 2026, they besides became the archetypal squad to suffice for the playoffs.SRH vs RCB - Playing XIs:Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, R Smaran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (capt), Shivang Kumar, Eshan Malinga, Sakib HussainImpact substitutes: Aniket Verma, Praful Hinge, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal PatelRoyal Challengers Bengaluru: Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (capt), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh HazlewoodImpact substitutes: Tim David, Kanishk Chouhan, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Jordan Cox.