While the players battle it out on the ground, a separate war is also going live on various social media channels. Many players seem to be active and provide constant updates and the other players seem to be enjoy the war.
When we did a social media analysis of the same, the results left us stunned!
2. Batsmen with highest Facebook Fans
Absolute growth
of fans during
CWC15
Percentage
growth of fans
during CWC15
695987 5.67%
989993 4.98%
21312381
13229647
6016453
4241718
3339217
1952139 1759123 1477833 1154353 941180
0
5000000
10000000
15000000
20000000
25000000
Virat Kohli MS Dhoni Rohit
Sharma
Shikhar
Dhawan
Kumar
Sangakkara
David
Miller
Ajinkya
Rahane
David
Warner
Tamim
Iqbal
Suresh
Raina
Source:my.fakingnews.firstpost.com
Source : kwodoks.tk
3. Bowlers with highest Facebook Fans
1836254
1340240
1245229
669602
581566
492676
328805 314850
165893 161059
0
200000
400000
600000
800000
1000000
1200000
1400000
1600000
1800000
2000000
Umesh YadavRavichandran
Ashwin
Dale Steyn Morne
Morkel
James
Anderson
Taskin
Ahmed
Mohammed
Shammi
Lasith
Malinga
Steven Finn Pat Cummins
Total number of likes, shares and comments
On February 14th
2015
On March 20st 2015
27949
2910762 (10314.5%
increase)
11413
614856 (5287.3%
increase)
Source : www.cricketcountry.com
Source : www.indiatvnews.com
8. 0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 700000 800000
Stuart Broad
JP Duminy
Ravindra Jadeja
Darren Sammy
Glenn Maxwell
Shahid Afridi
Mitchell Johnson
James Faulkner
Wayne Parnell
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
742689
560679
540536
406746
389541
363000
261540
216650
202413
199354
All-rounders with highest Twitter Followers
Stuart BroadSource : thesportsmash.co.uk
9. Batsman, Bowler and All-rounder with highest Tweets
200 Tweets 73 Tweets195 Tweets
Darren Sammy David Warner Dale Steyn
Source : au.eurosport.comSource :www.telegraph.co.ukSource : www.news.dm
10. Batsman, Bowler and All-rounder with highest Mentions
218306 Mentions 42914 Mentions55364 Mentions
MS Dhoni Wahab Riaz Shahid Afridi
Source : www.cricketcountry.com Source : www.telegraph.co.uk Source : www.topnews.in
11. Page Performance Index
Batsmen Facebook
MS Dhoni 100%
Virat Kohli 80%
Shikhar Dhawan 79%
Bowlers Facebook
Umesh Yadav 72%
Mohammed Shammi 70%
Taskin Ahmed 64%
All-rounders Facebook
Nasir Hossain 100%
Mashrafe Mortaza 100%
Shakib Al Hasan 82%
All-rounders Twitter
Glenn Maxwell 37%
Darren Sammy 34%
Shahid Afridi 16%
Bowlers Twitter
Wahab Riaz 54%
Kyle Abbott 54%
Mitchell Starc 20%
Batsmen Twitter
David Warner 26%
AB de Villers 23%
Virat Kohli 17%
12. Methodology
Online proprietary listening tools like Fanpagekarma and Topsy are used for collecting
the data and counting the number of mentions for each player. For Cricket Players
having multiple Twitter/Facebook profiles their main official account is taken into
consideration.
Period of analysis: February 14 to March 20, 2015
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