New Year’s festivities: Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli celebrated with family in Dubai; the cricket player posts a gorgeous photo of his “light of his life”

New Year’s festivities: The internet is in a frenzy over cricket star Virat Kohli’s first post of 2026, which has a gorgeous photo of him and his girlfriend Anushka Sharma celebrating the New Year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Anushka was wearing a stunning black dress, while Virat was dressed to the nines in a navy blue suit.

Fans showered the pair with love in the comment section as soon as Virat shared the photo.A remark on social media said, “King and his Queen.”How lovely,” a different admirer said.”Nazar na lage,” said one internet user.

Family members attended the New Year’s celebration with Virat and Anushka. Vikas Kohli, Virat’s brother, also posted a few photos from the celebration last night.

Virat was seen posing with his brother, father-in-law, and brother-in-law in one of the pictures.”The Boys,” Vikas wrote as the post’s caption.

The whole family posed together in a different post. There were also Anushka’s mother, Virat’s sister Bhawna, and sister-in-law Chetna. This family photo also features Virat’s niece and nephews.

He posted a lovely photo of himself and Anushka on New Year’s Eve, captioning it, “Stepping into 2026 with the light of my life, @anushkasharma.”

The photo showed Anushka and Virat grinning broadly as their features were whimsically painted. A stunning butterfly was painted over Anushka’s eye, and a Spider-Man motif covered half of his face.

On the professional front, Virat recently amassed 208 runs at an average of 104.00 and a strike rate of 128 in two Vijay Hazare Trophy matches, including a quick 77 in 61 balls against Gujarat and a 101-ball 131 against Andhra Pradesh.In addition to hitting the 1,000-run milestone in the tournament’s history, Virat’s comeback to VHT after a 15-year absence has also made him the quickest hitter to achieve the 16,000-run milestone in List A cricket and the second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar.

It now seems like Virat’s comeback to the 50-over format, which began poorly with two consecutive ducks against Australia in November, will be a successful one. Virat has hammered 584 runs at an average of 146.00 in six innings for India/Delhi, including three hundreds and three fifties, since his undefeated 74* in the Sydney ODI.

When India begins a three-match ODI series against New Zealand on January 11, all eyes will be on Virat to don the ODI colors.