Indian star Cricketer Virat Kohli was the most mentioned player on social media followed by Dhoni, Shahid Afridi, and Chris Gayle on both Facebook and Twitter, during T20 cricket world cup matches.
There were special innings through out the world cup, such as Kohli's innings against Australia and Dhoni producing a miraculous run out against Bangladesh. People posted numerous comments, pictures and videos.
There were 16000 tweets per minute when Kohli took India to the semi finals. On Facebook, a record 46 million people interacted during the world cup. The event had the highest tweet per minute rate for any ICC event. A total of 8.99 million tweets were recorded during the tournament.
India v Pakistan was the most popular match on social media. The final saw 6.1 million people interacting on Facebook.
