Virat Kohli has more followers than Sachin Tendulkar now.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: India’s top batsman Virat Kohli has surpassed master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to become the most followed sports personality.
Tendulkar, even after his retirement last year, holds the second spot in the most followed list of sports icons.
Twitter has offered Indian vice-captain Virat Kohli something to cheer about as his team face a tough competition in the Commonwealth Test Series in Australia which is also marred by a face-off between him and opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan.
Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) lead the list with a total follower base of 4,870,190, which is now higher than Sachin’s (@sachin_rt) total of 4,869,849. Until last week, Sachin was on the top of this list with Virat trailing behind him.
Kohli, after reaching the magic figure of 4 million followers tweeted on October “Here’s the 4 million follower selfie. Hope you like it :).”
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is next in the list after Sachin with more than 3,327,033 twitter fans; followed by Virendra Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh, whose international cricketing careers are in jeopardy after being rejected for the 2015 World Cup. Sehwag and Yuvraj shares 3,180,081 and 272390 followers, respectively.
Interestingly, nine out of 10 most followed sports personalities belong to the cricketing fraternity, with the only exception being the tennis player Sania Mirza who managed to find the 7th position in the top 10.