Do people virtually support their favorite cricket team?: insights from 2018 Asia cup

Abstract

Cricket fans all around the world love their favorite cricket team and always support them. This support is not limited to physical support but also virtual support through various social media websites. This paper tries to use this virtual support base of these fans in order to check whether people virtually support their favorite cricket team. We applied our analysis on 2018 Asia cup final played between India and Bangladesh. A total of 39,301 tweets were fetched in two days. The results were quite encouraging, giving better insight about support of this virtual community. India, which emerged as winner and were undefeated in the entire tournament, had a better virtual support as compared to their counterparts Bangladesh.