{"id":279936,"date":"2025-04-11T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/internet-mistakenly-attacks-sonu-nigam-for-virat-kohlis-ipl-2025-dismissal-kohli-ko-out-nahi-karna-chahiye-tha\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:33:18","slug":"internet-mistakenly-attacks-sonu-nigam-for-virat-kohlis-ipl-2025-dismissal-kohli-ko-out-nahi-karna-chahiye-tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/internet-mistakenly-attacks-sonu-nigam-for-virat-kohlis-ipl-2025-dismissal-kohli-ko-out-nahi-karna-chahiye-tha\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet (Mistakenly) Attacks Sonu Nigam For Virat Kohli&#8217;s IPL 2025 Dismissal: &#8220;Kohli Ko Out Nahi Karna Chahiye Tha&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/88sv7e3_sonu-nigam_625x300_11_April_25.jpg?im=FitAndFill%2Calgorithm%3Ddnn%2Cwidth%3D1200%2Cheight%3D738&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Internet (Mistakenly) Attacks Sonu Nigam For Virat Kohli&#8217;s IPL 2025 Dismissal: &#8220;Kohli Ko Out Nahi Karna Chahiye Tha&#8221;\" title=\"Internet (Mistakenly) Attacks Sonu Nigam For Virat Kohli&#8217;s IPL 2025 Dismissal: &#8220;Kohli Ko Out Nahi Karna Chahiye Tha&#8221;\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                <b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Singer Sonu Nigam has become the target of misdirected anger from Royal Challengers Bengaluru supporters and Indian cricketer Virat Kohli&#8217;s fans who have confused him with cricketer Vipraj Nigam, the bowler who dismissed Virat during the IPL match on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leg-spinner&#8217;s successful dismissal of Virat for just 22 runs significantly impacted the home team&#8217;s performance and left fans in shocked silence.<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>The crucial wicket came during the seventh over when the former RCB captain attempted an inside-out shot but failed to reach the ball properly, sending it toward long-off. Mitchell Starc made an impressive sliding catch to complete the dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Following the dismissal, Sonu Nigam&#8217;s comment section on his Instagram was flooded with messages from Virat fans. A fan commented, &#8220;Big fan sir, but kohli ko out nhi karna chahiye tha.&#8221; Another comment read, &#8220;How dare you take Kohli&#8217;s wicket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DIQ_TJjMGmK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first case of mistaken identity involving cricket fans. Previously, Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi experienced similar online harassment from a section of Internet users who confused him with Gujarat Titans bowler Arshad Khan.<\/p>\n<p><!--#VuukleAD--><\/p>\n<p>After Arshad Khan dismissed Virat during Wednesday&#8217;s IPL match between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, fans flooded Warsi&#8217;s Instagram with critical comments.<\/p>\n<p>One fan commented on Warsi&#8217;s recent Instagram post featuring actor Ajay Devgn: &#8220;Kohli ko out kyun kiya&#8221; (Why did you dismiss Kohli?), demonstrating the confusion between the actor and the cricketer.<\/p>\n<p><!--#MIDAD1--><\/p>\n<p>Sonu Nigam is known for songs like <em>Satrangi re, Deewana,\u00a0Main Agar Kahoon, Tumse Milke Dil Ka.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/entertainment\/ipl-2025-after-arshad-warsi-internet-targets-singer-sonu-nigam-over-virat-kohlis-dismissal-kohli-ko-out-nahi-karna-chaayie-tha-8138741#publisher=newsstand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Singer Sonu Nigam has become the target of misdirected anger from Royal Challengers Bengaluru supporters and Indian cricketer Virat Kohli&#8217;s fans who have confused him with cricketer Vipraj Nigam, the bowler who dismissed Virat during the IPL match on Thursday.\u00a0 The leg-spinner&#8217;s successful dismissal of Virat for just 22 runs significantly impacted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/88sv7e3_sonu-nigam_625x300_11_April_25.jpg?im=FitAndFill,algorithm=dnn,width=1200,height=738","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[1179,23813,26982,1426,336,19669,100191,3272,4391,85994,6721,11162,11161,10488,1634,3271,3268],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279938,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279936\/revisions\/279938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}