IPL 2026: Virat Kohli admired Urvil Patel’s stormy innings, kept watching the batting while sitting in the dugout.

Urvil Patel batted brilliantly against Lucknow Super Giants. Virat Kohli was also seen watching his explosive innings sitting in the dugout in Raipur on TV, the video of which is going viral on social media.

IPL 2026, Virat Kohli watching Urvil Patel innings from dugout: In IPL 2026, May 9 was the day in the name of Chennai Super Kings’ young batsman Urvil Patel. In the match played against Lucknow Super Giants, Urvil did such explosive batting which surprised everyone. He hit 6 sixes in the first 8 balls of his innings and instantly changed the entire course of the match.

Urvil Patel completed his half-century in just 13 balls and equaled the record of scoring the fastest fifty in IPL history. By the time he was out after scoring 65 runs in 23 balls, Chennai Super Kings had completely taken control of the match. Not only the fans present in Chepauk, but also Virat Kohli were seen enjoying his stormy innings.

IPL 2026: Kohli was watching Urvil’s innings in the dugout.

Royal Challengers Bangalore were to play against Mumbai Indians on May 10 at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur. Before the start of this match of IPL 2026, Virat Kohli was present in the dugout, when the replay of Urvil Patel’s batting was playing on the TV screen.

In the video going viral on social media, it can be seen that Virat is standing in front of the TV drinking water and watching the big shots of Urvil very carefully. Urvil’s explosive batting even stopped Virat for a few moments and this video is now going viral among the fans.

IPL 2026: Created history by scoring fifty in 13 balls

In this match in IPL 2026, Urvil Patel started showing aggressive style as soon as he entered the field. At one time he was playing after scoring 42 runs in just 8 balls and it seemed that he would complete his half-century in just 10 balls. Urvil created history by completing his fifty in 13 balls. In this match, he faced 23 balls and scored 65 runs, which included 8 sixes and 2 fours. With this he also equaled Yashasvi Jaiswal’s record of fastest IPL half-century.

IPL 2026: Special record dedicated to father

After completing his half-century, Urvil Patel took out a slip from his pocket and showed it towards the camera. It was written on that slip, “Papa, this is for you.” Apart from this, some special things were also written in Gujarati language in the slip.

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