Top 5 Most Followed IPL Captains on Social Media

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Kohli leads the table of popularity in social media

The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to commence on 9th April. With two titles in a row in its kitty, Mumbai Indians will be trying to complete a monumental hat-trick.

Mumbai Indians is not only the two-time IPL champions they are the team with the highest following on social media. All the teams are in a continuous process of increasing their follower count on social media to increase their popularity and brand value.

Similarly, the players also are not different as each of the cricketers wants to their market value through social media. So let us look for IPL: 5 most followed captains on social media.

Virat Kohli – 188 million followers

The brand value of the Indian captain is the highest in the world when it is placed among the athletes. Even, adding the follower count of five other leading skippers, Kohli’s followership cannot be overcome. It only says how big he is in the sporting world. Generally, a cricketer’s following is generated on his performance on the field. Virat Kohli has so far scored 22609 runs in 431 matches at an average of more than 55. Even in the IPL Kohli 5878 runs in 192 matches and he is the highest run-scorer in the history of the League. The RCB captain has 104 million followers on Instagram. Only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar are ahead of him in this race. Kohli has 41 million followers on Twitter and 43 million followers on Facebook.

MS Dhoni – 63.7 million followers

MS Dhoni is also one of the most popular cricketers of all time and the craze for him is unparallel. Dhoni also has rare laurels of winning three ICC trophies as captain. The 39-year old former Indian international has captained his country for more than 300 occasions and leads the table for that statistics.

Dhoni has a stunning 30.6 million followers on Instagram, 8.1 million followers on Twitter, and 25 million followers on Facebook. Dhoni, despite being inactive in his accounts must be on the list of IPL: 5 most followed captains on social media.

Rohit Sharma – 53.6 million follower

Rohit Sharma, the captain of Mumbai Indians can be called the second-best Indian batsman of his time and he also has huge fan-following in social media. Apart from being the third, most followed IPL Rohit Sharma is also the most successful captain on the field having lifted the trophy on five occasions. He has 18.5 million followers on Twitter and 17.8 million on Instagram. His Facebook account has 17.3 million followers.

KL Rahul – 22 million followers

K.L. Rahul is now highly popular among the young generation mainly because of his aggressive batting and good looks. This is going to be his second season as captain and he must try to make a revamp of his franchise team Punjab Kings that finished at 6th position. He has 9.3 followers on Instagram and 5.4 million followers on Twitter and 7.3 million followers on his Facebook account. Rahul is gaining loads of followers every day.

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