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Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli, and the Scrutiny of Public Life

Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli, and the Scrutiny of Public Life

Whenever Virat Kohli was out there playing a Test match, and things went sideways—India just wasn’t performing—the internet found a target. It always landed on Anushka Sharma sitting there in the stands.

She hadn't done anything wrong. She just kept doing nothing wrong. But the memes started fast.

For years, it was this pattern. A bad duck. A dropped catch from a teammate. A terrible DRS call. And Anushka Sharma was the one everyone pointed at. Not Virat. Anushka. It was as if her mere presence in the players’ box somehow influenced the ball. Guiding it past the bat.

It was cruel. The logic behind it was baroque, almost twisted. The internet decided she was bad luck. A distraction. An actress who shouldn’t have been involved with a cricketer at all.

They blamed her for every boundary he missed. And they gave him all the credit for every century. That’s just not how cricket works. It’s not how love works either.

They got married in December 2017. A quiet thing. Tuscany. No big fuss. Just family and the Italian hills watching. India found out later, through Instagram. Virat posted the picture himself. A simple caption. It quieted the trolls for a day.

Then came the celebration photos. A century celebration photo the month after. A heart emoji dedicated to her. The story started shifting. Rewriting itself, you know?

Then came the IPL stuff. 2025 and 2026. The internet loves that kind of stuff. Anushka in the RCB box. Completely losing it with joy. The clips are everywhere. Jumping up when he hits a boundary. Her face—tense, clasped hands—then suddenly open-mouthed, screaming. Mouthing something to him when he walked off.

Cricket is always about superstition. Lucky underwear. Warm-up rituals. Batsmen refusing to change their stance even when they’re on 49. But the worst part was what Anushka had to endure before all this adulation.

Years of online harassment. Vile comments. Memes following her across every big moment. And then, when the tide finally turned, she just had to accept the glory. No apology. No reckoning. Nobody said anything.

The accounts that were mocking her suddenly started celebrating her. Nobody saw that as something that needed acknowledgement.

She never asked for it. Not publicly. She just kept moving. With a dignity that the whole conversation about her just couldn't touch.

That whole ‘lucky charm’ thing? It just keeps her in the support role. The scapegoat framing said she held him back. The lucky charm framing said she lifted him up. Both of them put Virat right in the center. Both reduced her to whatever function she had relative to his batting average.

She has her own life. A filmography. A production company. A public life that is huge. And yet, the talk is still about what she does to his scores. But she’s beyond that.

The real story between Anushka and Virat wasn’t about cricket. It was about a woman who just stayed. Quietly. Publicly. Through the worst of what the internet threw at her. And a man who kept making it clear, over and over, that she was the one he celebrated first.

India took a while to catch up. But it got there. And now, every time the camera catches her in those stands—face lit up, completely undone by love and cricket and the man she married in Tuscany—it still feels like an apology India is still trying to make.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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