Mumbai and Chennai are the two most successful teams in the IPL. Both teams have won IPL titles 5-5 times and qualified for the playoffs several times. For this reason, the mutual rivalry between these two top teams is enormous. A huge rivalry is witnessed between the teams from Mumbai and Chennai both on the field and off the field i.e. on social media.
There is a constant dispute between the fans of these two major IPL teams, which affects the increasing and decreasing number of followers on the social media accounts of these two teams. On December 15, the Mumbai Indians team made such an announcement after which their social media fans started abandoning them. Mumbai removed Rohit Sharma, who had captained the team for the last decade and made them champions five times, and appointed Hardik Pandya as the new captain.
The impact of this move by Mumbai Indians was seen on social media and within hours they lost millions of their followers. The Chennai Super Kings benefited from this. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings’ follower count was already quite high, but after this big step from Mumbai, the Chennai Super Kings team became the most followed IPL team on Instagram. The number of followers of Chennai Super Kings on Instagram has now increased to over 13 million. At the same time, the number of Mumbai Indians followers has declined to 12.9 million.
In fact, following Rohit’s removal from the captaincy, the number of Mumbai Indians supporters fell overnight and the number of Chennai Super Kings supporters increased more than before. This is why the Chennai team is now the most followed IPL team on Instagram. Now it remains to be seen how the game between the Chennai Super Kings and the Mumbai Indians will end with the new captain of the Mumbai Indians and who will win in it.