‘Bas karo, chodh do IPL ka peecha’ – Fans react as social media reports reveal most popular player and team of IPL 2023

MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super won the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and lifted the title for a record fifth time. With this, they equalled the record of Mumbai Indians (MI), who have won five titles as well in the history of IPL so far. Shubman Gill was awarded the Orange Cap, and Mohammad Shami received the Purple Cap in the IPL  2023.

According to a report by Interactive Avenue, Former India skipper, Virat Kohli won the most popular player award as he surpassed his former teammate, Dhoni. He had a total of 7 million social media mentions across IPL 2023, despite his side, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) not able to make it to the playoff of the IPL 2023.

Let’s look at the most mentioned moment in IPL 2023

According to the Hansa Research IPLomania Report, Dhoni was elected as the ‘Most Favourite’ captain in IPL 2023, ahead of Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Faf du Plessis, and KL Rahul. With 3 million social media mentions, MI skipper Rohit was the third ‘Most Popular’ player in IPL 2023. Gujarat Titans opener, Gill had 1 million social media mentions this season.

According to interactions on Twitter during April, CSK became the most popular team and the fourth best in the world. With 7.6 million mentions on social media, they were also the most talked about and popular IPL team in 2023. Rinku Singh’s 5 sixes in the last over off Yash Dayal against GT got the highest social media likes.

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) batter also became the most popular emerging player in the IPL. Naveen-ul-Haq and Gautam Gambhir of the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) had an on-field argument with Kohli during his team’s IPL 2023 match against RCB at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The fight between those three became the most mentioned moment in IPL 2023.

Here is the full list:

Social media report of IPL 2023 [Interactive Avenues]:

Most Popular player – Virat Kohli

Most popular team – Chennai Super Kings

Highest social media likes – Rinku Singh’s match-winning knock vs Gujarat Titans

Most mentions & engagements – Virat Kohli, Naveen Ul-Haq, Gautam Gambhir moment.

Most popular emerging player – Rinku Singh

Here’s how fans reacted:

https://twitter.com/PrinceK14414056/status/1673220694438731776

https://twitter.com/ShortArmJab7/status/1673209166712954881

https://twitter.com/AnikhSpell64635/status/1673207977267040256

https://twitter.com/SarcGPT/status/1673207710433812481

https://twitter.com/gheyforrohit/status/1673207237890957317

Still stuck onto IPL, even after the shame of the WTC final

— Agnishwar Raychaudhuri (@agnishwar73) June 26, 2023

https://twitter.com/82off52/status/1673207792642187264

https://twitter.com/ShuhidAufridi/status/1673208893823152128