The Indian Premier League (IPL), since its inception in 2008, has efficiently mixed cricket and leisure. Many celebrities, akin to Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta, personal widespread franchises just like the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Punjab Kings (PBKS), respectively. Moreover, a number of different Bollywood stars have participated as model ambassadors or performers on the league’s glitzy opening and shutting ceremonies.

Lately, the grand daughter of Late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Shubman Gill’s alleged girlfriend, Sara Ali Khan, has named her favorite cricketer and the IPL workforce she helps.

In her interplay with Star Sports activities India, Sara revealed that it isn’t Gill, Rohit Sharma or MS Dhoni however Virat Kohli who’s her favorite cricketer.

“Virat Kohli… I feel I’m an enormous fan,” mentioned Sara when requested to call her favorite participant.

“I feel he has acquired lots of swag additionally,” she added. “I feel like that’s additionally actually cool… like he’s clearly an outstanding cricketer.”

Virat enjoys an enormous fan following all throughout the globe. He is among the greatest youth icons in India and his recognition could be measured by means of his huge variety of followers on social media. Virat is the most-followed Indian sportsperson on Instagram with over 263 million followers. Whereas on Twitter, the batting maestro has over 55.5 million followers making him one of the well-known personalities on the platform.

In the meantime, when requested to call her favorite IPL workforce, Sara picked Mumbai Indians (MI) as a result of she is a Mumbaikar and the MI workforce sports activities the blue jersey identical to Workforce India.

“Mumbai Indians…as a result of they bleed blue identical to Workforce India,” mentioned Sara.

The Mumbai-based franchise is owned by India’s greatest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, and is at present captained by Rohit.

MI have received the IPL trophy a record-breaking 5 occasions, in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020. They’re additionally the primary workforce to win the event in consecutive years, having received in 2019 and 2020. The workforce has had a number of star gamers over time, together with Sachin Tendulkar, Lasith Malinga and Kieron Pollard.