Indian cricketers enjoy celebraty status because of their on field performnace and out field activities. The popularity of crickters depends on their performances. Sachin Tendulkar was the much-folowed crickter on twitter during his playing days. Sachin, who is colloquially called as God by his fans, enjoys the fan following more than any other crickter of India as he played the game for 25 years.

But, the popularity of 21^st century crickters measures in their fan following in twitter. Among the current Indian crickters, Virat Kohli has been the most followed crickters in the World as he 8.76 million twitter followers.

Virat has been a phonomenon in Indian cricket as he scored 23 ODI hundred and become second most century scorer after Sachin Tendulkar’s 49 in ODI.

Recently Virat has taken over rein the Test captaincy from MS Dhoni. He won the series in Sri Lanka, which his predicessor failed to do in the last 22 years. His 3-0 home sereis victory is also an acheivement.

Tendulkar even three years after his retirement has been the second most following cricketer in the world. Masters blaster enjoyes fan following of 8.75 million.

In the list of top 10 most followed cricketer 6 Indian cricketers feature while South African ODI captain AB de Villiers stands at no. 10. Among the cricket commentator and cricket analyst Harsha Bhogle is the most followed among the blokes. Bhogle stand stands at no. 8 before the batsmen like AB de Villiers and controversial England cricketer Kevin Pietersen.

Indian limited over captain MS Dhoni, who featured in top of richest Indian cricketer list, has been in the fifth position with 4.75 million.

Former explosive Indian batsman Virender Sehwag, who recently retired from international cricket, has been in the fourth position. Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Riana are the two other cricketers who have also featured in the list.

However, one New Zealand cricketer James Nisham, who is quite famous in twitter as he reply almost all query of cricket fans. But as he belongs to less populated country New Zealand his fan following is only 47.8 k.

Here is the list of most followed cricketers in the world