Virat Kohli laughs off report of ‘demanding’ India-London chartered flight:RCB star dismisses fake news with Insta story

Virat Kohli took to Instagram to dismiss fake news of him demanding an India-London chartered flight during IPL 2026. The India and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) star is gearing up for his 19th season and is among the four players who have featured in every IPL edition-MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and Manish Pandey being the other three. RCB will start their IPL 2026 campaign against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first match of the season at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Kohli’s form will be crucial as RCB aim for back-to-back titles. Virat Kohli debunks fake news of him demanding India-London chartered flight An Instagram story by the username “worldinlast24hr” did the rounds on social media that claimed that Kohli, who is known to have settled in London with his family, has ‘demanded’ a chartered flight to travel to London during the IPL. Furthermore, the report stated that, “If there’s a gap of more than 3 days between matches, he plans to fly out to London and return just before the next game.” Kohli took to Instagram to share the story and used laughing emojis to literally laugh off the story. Also read: ‘Iss saal No. 6’, Rohit Sharma promises to MI fans:Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya request Mumbai crowd to call ‘Hitman’ on stage Virat Kohli closing in on 9000-run mark in IPL Meanwhile, Kohli will look to get to the 9000-run mark in the IPL, becoming the first player to do so. The star cricketer currently has 8,661 runs in 267 matches and is the highest run-scorer in the tournament’s history. Last year, Kohli had amassed 657 runs in 15 innings at an average of 54.75 and a strike rate of 144.71. The 37-year-old finished as RCB’s highest run-scorer in their title-winning campaign last year. Earlier, he fired up his RCB teammates with a motivational pep talk in their first training session. “We worked really hard over the last two to three seasons to achieve what we did last year, and it’s only going to get tougher because other teams are going to come hard at us,” he said.