Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill shared a cryptic post on X after GT registered a commanding 8-wicket victory over RCB at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Is there tension between Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli? Did Gill take a swipe at the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) fans? In the world of social media updates, it doesn’t take much time to create narratives; fan wars are a daily affair and nameless trolls form a large pool. All they need is a spark. And it came from Gill’s first post on X in IPL 2025 on April 2 (Wednesday). That it came after his side, Gujarat Titans, defeated RCB at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, perhaps carried an underlining message, with its coded nature being the real eye-catcher.
Gill broke his X hiatus with a cryptic or coded post after GT beat RCB by 8 wickets. “Eyes on the game, not the noise,” The GT captain wrote.
It was just a seven-word post from a captain whose team had just registered a dominating victory against an undefeated side on a roll in the tournament, right? Perhaps not, at least according to the fans. To be honest, the last three words of the post do have a cryptic tone. What noise was Gill talking about? Was it to silence the vociferous RCB crowd at the Chinnaswamy? Or a reply to Kohli’s animated celebration?
Needless to say, it did not take much time for the fans to draw conclusions, find inner meaning, and whatnot. It was not a surprise that the majority of the conclusions were related to Kohli.