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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the Women's Premier League 2024 (WPL 2024) title by defeating Delhi Capitals (DC) in the final. With this victory, Bangalore team broke Virat Kohli's record. This was not a special record of winning the IPL trophy, but a very special record was broken on social media, which was earlier in the name of Virat Kohli.
RCB broke Virat Kohli's record
RCB holds the record for the fastest 1 million likes on an Instagram post, which was previously held by Virat Kohli. The post on RCB's win got 1 million likes in just 9 minutes. Whereas this record in the name of Virat Kohli was of 10 minutes. A post by Kohli has got the fastest 10 lakh likes in 10 minutes.
RCB's Instagram became the first Indian account to cross 1 million likes on a post in 9 minutes. Earlier, Kohli's account was the fastest Indian Instagram account to reach 1 million likes.
RCB franchise won its first title
It has been more than 16 years since the RCB franchise was established. This franchise started with the first season of IPL in 2008, but it won its first title in 2024. The franchise began in 2008 with a men's team, but the women's team won its first title.
The RCB women's team was launched in 2023, when the Women's Premier League began. After playing 16 seasons of IPL, the RCB men's team could not win the title, but the women's team of the franchise won the title in the second season of the league.
Defeated Delhi Capitals
It is noteworthy that RCB played the final match against Delhi Capitals. After winning the toss and batting first, Delhi team was out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs. After this, while chasing the target, RCB won by 2 wickets. In this way Smriti Mandhana's team won by 8 wickets.