When Virat Kohli went past Sachin Tendulkar

For someone who spends such little time on Twitter, Virat Kohli's doing rather well - less than 700 tweets with over eight million followers. He follows only 24 handles [cricketers include Tendulkar, Dhoni, Zaheer, Yuvraj, Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh), KP (Kevin Pietersen), Praveen Kumar, Ross Taylor, AB de Villiers, Boucher). And guess what, Anushka Sharma is with him on Twitter too. Doing his performance no harm.

Twitter followers (million):

Virat Kohli - 8.01 

Sachin - 7.73 

Raina - 4.66 

Dhoni - 4.52 

Sehwag - 4.42 

Yuvraj Singh - 3.40 

Rohit Sharma - 2.65 

Zaheer Khan - 2.37 

(Figures by Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman.)

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