{"id":113334,"date":"2026-05-31T22:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/ipl-2026-how-every-piece-of-the-puzzle-fell-into-place-for-royal-challengers-bengaluru\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:35:47","slug":"ipl-2026-how-every-piece-of-the-puzzle-fell-into-place-for-royal-challengers-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/ipl-2026-how-every-piece-of-the-puzzle-fell-into-place-for-royal-challengers-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: How every piece of the puzzle fell into place for Royal Challengers Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every major RCB win in IPL 2026 featured a different hero. Sometimes it was Kohli. Sometimes Patidar. Sometimes Padikkal. Sometimes David. Sometimes Krunal. Sometimes Bhuvneshwar. Sometimes it was the bowlers operating as a collective unit. That was the defining characteristic of this championship side. The first IPL trophy ended one of the league&#8217;s longest waits. The second confirmed something even more important. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are no longer a franchise chasing history. They may well be on their way to creating one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every major RCB win in IPL 2026 featured a different hero. Sometimes it was Kohli. Sometimes Patidar. Sometimes Padikkal. Sometimes David. Sometimes Krunal. Sometimes Bhuvneshwar. Sometimes it was the bowlers operating as a collective unit. That was the defining characteristic of this championship side. The first IPL trophy ended one of the league&#8217;s longest waits.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/ipl-2026-how-every-piece-of-the-puzzle-fell-into-place-for-royal-challengers-bengaluru\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IPL 2026: How every piece of the puzzle fell into place for Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":113335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}