NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday hit six million followers on micro-blogging site Twitter thus becoming the second cricket body to reach the landmark, after the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The ICC has 6.88m followers. But surprisingly, Bangladesh Cricket Board (@BCBtigers) has beaten the likes of Pakistan, England, Australia, etc to the second spot behind BCCI with 1.75m followers.
The announced the landmark via a posting on its official handle: “Our family is now 6 million strong! Thank you for the love and support.”
For the record, BCCI has two other official accounts, for the women’s team (@BCCIWomen) and domestic cricket (@BCCIdomestic) with 96,000 and 218,000 followers respectively.
