India v Pakistan most talked about match on Twitter during the World T20
The ICC World T20 2016 has finally come to an end and #WI held up their nerves as they finished up being the champions by defeating #ENG in the finals. Throughout the world’s biggest T20 cricket tournament, Twitter carried the roar of the crowd and gave fans the chance to get closer to ICC #WT20 action more than ever before. Along with the best companion of any sports fan, Twitter was the best seat to view the conversations around the biggest tournament for shorter version of cricket.
The World T20 also had the most tweets-per-match of any international cricket event and there were a total of 9 million tweets for the 35- match event. There was a 122% increase in tweets-per-match compared to the 2015 Indian Premier League season which had 6.8 million tweets for a 59-match season.
Twitter Audience Index for #WT20 period 8 March 2016 to 3 April 2016
The excitement of the ICC World T20 2016 turned out big on Twitter with 5.74 billion Live Impressions (Tweet views during the Live TV windows for each of the games).
The ICC World T20 was the biggest ever Tweeted T20 International tournament with over 8.99 million Tweets.
With over 1.12 million Tweets, #INDvPAK game is the most talked match about contest during this tournament:
Most Mentioned Players on Twitter
1. Virat Kohli (@ImVkohli) – 10212409 Followers
2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) – 5283216 Followers
3. Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) – 599017 Followers
4. Chris Gayle (@henrygayle) – 2962084 Followers
5. Joe Root (@root66) – 337494 Followers
TOP 5 Moments of #WT20
| 27/3/2016 | 10:59 PM | India Beats Australia by 6 wickets | 16.0k Tweets per minute | (Ind vs Aus) |
| 3/4/2016 | 10:37 PM | 4 straight 6’s to win the World Cup | 14.3k Tweets per minute | (Wi vs Eng Final) |
| 19/3/2016 | 11:24 PM | India wins by 6 wickets vs Pak | 12.4k Tweets per minute | (Ind vs Pak) |
| 27/3/2016 | 10:54 PM | Another Kohli boundary! 4 needed from the last over | 12.1k Tweets per minute | (Ind vs Aus) |
| 23/3/2016 | 11:22 PM | India wins by 1 run against Bangladesh | 10.0k Tweets per minute | (Ind vs Ban) |
Most Talked about Matches on Twitter
| TOP MATCHES | TWEETS |
| IND V PAK | 1125921 |
| IND V AUS | 973251 |
| IND V WI | 908415 |
| WI V ENG | 772178 |
| IND V BAN | 635300 |
Most Mentioned Teams on Twitter
1) India
2) Pakistan
3) West Indies
4) England
5) Bangladesh
Here are some of the Most Retweeted Tweets from #WT20
“That was a thrilling game! Congratulations Team India. Very happy. Well played Bangladesh. #IndvsBan” The top retweet was for Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s tweet after the India-Bangladesh match which India won by a whisker:
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