Just two days after the IPL 2026 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru finally put sound to a viral moment involving Virat Kohli and teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The video first captured attention immediately after RCB secured a second straight title by defeating the Gujarat Titans, but every clip doing the rounds on social media had gone out without any audio. Now, RCB have released the full, spoken exchange—showing exactly what Kohli told the 15-year-old in the 43-second interaction.
What Kohli told Sooryavanshi in the viral chat
- In the clip, Kohli reminds Sooryavanshi that everything he has achieved so far has come from hard work and belief.
- He then urges the youngster to ignore what others are saying from the outside and to keep raising his standards as he goes higher.
- Kohli’s message, delivered as Sooryavanshi listens closely, stresses that public opinions should not matter—finishing with the line that “a Bihari beats them all,” followed by “end of story.”
RCB captioned the video with a special note aimed at the teenager. The message praised the guidance as the kind of encouragement only Virat Kohli could offer, adding that Sooryavanshi should keep the momentum going “onwards and upwards.”
This was not the only time Kohli and Sooryavanshi had drawn public attention during IPL 2026. Earlier in the season, the former India captain met the young wonderkid following RCB’s match against the Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati. Kohli also signed Sooryavanshi’s Orange Cap during that encounter, and the teenager was later seen proudly displaying the Kohli-signed cap whenever he returned to the top of the run-getters’ chart.
Rajasthan Royals, however, did not reach the final. Even so, Sooryavanshi was in Ahmedabad on Sunday night, taking in the championship game from the stands. He sat alongside ICC chairman Jay Shah, and after the match, he left the venue carrying not one but five individual awards.
Sooryavanshi’s haul reflected a dominant IPL 2026 season: he won the Orange Cap after scoring 776 runs, the most by any batter in the tournament. His strike rate of 237.3 earned him the Super Striker award. He smashed 72 sixes, which was both the highest total of the season and the most by any player in a single IPL edition—leading to the Most Sixes award. His impact throughout the campaign, which made him a central heartbeat of IPL 2026, also brought him the Most Valuable Player honour. At just 15, achieving all of it was described as nothing short of extraordinary.
To cap off the night, the organisers presented Sooryavanshi with a fifth and final recognition: the Emerging Player award.
