IPL 2025: Fan invades pitch to touch Virat Kohli’s feet during KKR vs RCB match

Virat Kohli, one of the world’s best batsmen with a massive fan following, often sees fans breaching security to meet him on the field. The same happened during the first match of the IPL 2025, KKR vs. RCB, where a fan entered the Eden Gardens field and touched the feet of the 36-year-old.

Watch: Fan invades pitch to touch Virat Kohli’s feet during KKR vs RCB

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While RCB was chasing 175 against Kolkata Knight Riders, Virat Kohli was batting amazingly well in the middle with Phil Salt when a fan entered the field and touched Virat’s feet just after he scored the half-century. However, the guards quickly caught him and escorted him out of the ground.

Virat Kohli started his IPL 2025 campaign with a match-winning half-century against KKR. He scored an unbeaten 59 runs off just 36 balls, including 4 sixes and 3 fours. RCB won their first match by 7 wickets by defeating KKR at their home Eden Gardens Kolkata.

IPL 2025 KKR vs RCB Summary

In the first match of the IPL 2025, RCB captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and elected to bowl first against Ajinkya Rahane’s KKR. Surprisingly, RCB did not name Bhuvneshwar Kumar in their playing XI. Quinton de Kock and Sunil Narine came to open the inning for KKR, and Josh Hazlewood dismissed QDK early on with just 4 runs. The team dominated the first three overs, but after surviving three overs, Narine and Rahane took charge and bounced back hard to reach a total of 60 in the powerplay and continued their attack past the mark of 100 in just 10 overs.

However, RCB bounced back in the second half of the first inning, where Rasikh Salam broke the partnership by dismissing Narine on 44 runs, and Krunal Pandya took the wicket of Rahane on 56 runs in the next over to bring RCB back into the game. After the 2nd wicket partnership, the KKR innings slipped, and they only managed to put up a total of 174 at the loss of 8 wickets. However, Angkrish Raghuvanshi played a decent inning of 30 runs off 22 balls in the middle. Krunal took 3 wickets, Hazlewood got 2, and Dayal, Suyash, and Rasikh got 1 each.

While chasing the target of 175, RCB opener Phil Salt and Virat Kohli got off to a flying start. Phil Salt smashed 56 runs off just 31 balls and got out to Varun Chakravarthy, and Devdutt Padikkal came as an impact substitute but did not manage to impress and got out on 10 runs. However, Virat Kohli continued his attack with captain Rajat Patidar and with the finishing touches of Liam Livingstone, RCB chased down the target in just 16.2 overs. Virat scored an amazing inning of unbeaten 59 runs off just 36 balls including 4 sixes and 3 fours.