Virat Kohli turns into first cricketer to achieve 50 million Twitter followers

India star Virat Kohli continued to rule social media as he grew to become the primary cricketer to finish 50 million followers on the micro-blogging website Twitter.

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HIGHLIGHTSVirat Kohli grew to become first cricketer to finish 50 million followers on TwitterKohli boasts of over 211 million followers on InstagramKohli stormed again to kind within the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2022

India star batter Virat Kohli, who has 211 million Instagram followers, grew to become the primary cricketer to achieve 50 million followers on Twitter. The 33-year-old is probably the most adopted cricketer on the earth and the third most adopted sportsperson on Instagram after Cristiano Ronaldo (450M) and Lionel Messi (333M). Kohli additionally has over 49 million followers on Facebook, which takes his social media presence to over 310 million followers.

Kohli stormed again to kind within the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2022, ending up as India’s high scorer and the match’s second-highest run-getter with two fifties and a century. Kohli additionally ended his lengthy drought for a century in worldwide cricket when he reached the three-figure mark within the useless rubber in opposition to Afghanistan.

While he was scoring centuries at will as soon as upon a time, Kohli needed to anticipate 1019 days to attain his 71st ton – which was additionally his first century within the shortest format of the sport. After his century in opposition to Afghanistan, Kohli additionally thanked captain Rohit Sharma and the group administration for letting him play the best way he wished to.

Before the match, Kohli had revealed that he didn’t contact his bat for a month, which occurred the primary time he began taking part in skilled cricket.

“I know there was a lot of stuff going on on the outside but they really kept my perspective right and I kissed my ring in the celebrations as well. You see me standing like this right now and all the things being put in perspective have been done by one person, who stood by me through all these difficult times that is Anushka,” Virat Kohli instructed after hitting 6 sixes and 12 boundaries in Dubai.

“This hundred is specially dedicated to her and our little daughter Vamika as well. When you have someone next to you, having conversations, putting the things in the right perspective like I have been and Anushka has been by my side through these times, time away from the game has thought me a lot of things.”

This was Kohli’s first ever T20I hundred and the Indian group shall be relieved that it has come forward of the T20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in Australia later this yr.

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