Is Dhoni more popular than Sachin ?

[velu 20,228]

 

 

 

title credits goes to @vvvslaxman ..

i see lots of potential , soul searching to be done on this topic

 

 

 

Edited May 20, 2018 by velu

[rahulrulezz 978]

No one can match Sachin for us Indians. No one!!

[upriser7 34]

No

[velu 20,228]

1 minute ago, upriser7 said:

No

maybe yes..

[velu 20,228]

google trends .. dhoni ahead of sachin

 

[velu 20,228]

for the past 5 years ..

 

 

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Sachin got booed by his own crowd once if i remember right. I mean he is hugely popular across the world.  But level of craze is more for Dhoni. 10000 people went just to see him going to have a haircut :)

[jalebi_bhai 2,044]

@velu start a poll. 

[zen 8,244]

2 minutes ago, velu said:

for the past 5 years ..

 

 

That is not apples to apples as one has retired while the other is still playing. You should compare data when both of them were playing

[velu 20,228]

1 minute ago, jalebi_bhai said:

@velu start a poll. 

 

i think sachin fans will win here in ICF  

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

This is not about who is better player. But just because of Dhoni, CSK was having a home game everywhere. I don't post anything bad about Dhoni on my FB as almost all my friends in the friend list are Dhoni fans lol I just play it safe.

[jalebi_bhai 2,044]

1 minute ago, velu said:

 

i think sachin fans will win here in ICF  

Don't be scared bro, just do it.

[Rasgulla 7,069]

Ofcourse why is this a surprise..sachin who ??? 

 

Indians support players who play for the team than selfish tuk tuk 100s. 

 

 

Sachin has huge fan following in Bangladesh for helping them with his tuk tuk 100..  @speedheat And @kira can confirm it

 

 

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

1 minute ago, velu said:

 

i think sachin fans will win here in ICF  

True. Sachin fans will outnumber Dhoni in ICF.

[Zelig 1,997]

[velu 20,228]

2 minutes ago, zen said:

That is not apples to apples as one has retired while the other is still playing. You should compare data when both of them were playing

 

dhoni started very late .. dhoni is ahead from 2011 as well

 

[velu 20,228]

2 minutes ago, jalebi_bhai said:

Don't be scared bro, just do it.

 

i have one simialr thread in cricket section ( between all the players )

for time being lets enjoy our google trend stats in fvaor of dhoni

 

[PBN 2,264]

5 minutes ago, velu said:

for the past 5 years ..

 

 

what happened around nov 2016 to create that spike. dhoni gave up odi captaincy around jan 2017

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

      VS 

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

any idea on collections for these movies?

[Anoop K 17]

No.Sachin was way more popular. There was a report how sourav got angry when he was completely overshadowed by sachin's stardom when they arrived to play a match in the year 2001/02. 

Sachin even after his retirement is one of the most searched cricketer.

[Scar 289]

Any Google trend is not enough to quantify the effect sachin had on cricket. 

The socio-economic structure of India was very much different to what we have now. 

 

India was a struggling economy and facing set backs on all fronts. SACHIN was one of the very few things Indians can feel proud about during those days. People use to turn off the TV once sachin use to get out. He had pan India fan following and hardly any haters. All of this was in the time when there was no hype and PR machinery to create reverence for a cricketer. Some years back I was in kerala, and I was astonished to find fans of sachin among the guys who don't even like cricket. 

 

To put things in perspective, Dhoni may become the most popular player of India but he can never become an emotion that sachin was. 

[Texy 1,701]

Sachin is old new...new generation grew up watching Dhoni so yes Dhoni is way more popular

[Rasgulla 7,069]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

      VS 

How can you compare a comedy documentary vs a proper bio movie.  He even got owned by MS there

[velu 20,228]

2 minutes ago, Anoop K said:

No.Sachin was way more popular. There was a report how sourav got angry when he was completely overshadowed by sachin's stardom when they arrived to play a match in the year 2001/02. 

Sachin even after his retirement is one of the most searched cricketer.

 

natural progression ..

sunny , kapil was more popular ..

then came sachin..

now dhoni ..

tomorrow kohli..

day after tomorrow it might be pant 

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

1 minute ago, Scar said:

Any Google trend is not enough to quantify the effect sachin had on cricket. 

The socio-economic structure of India was very much different to what we have now. 

 

India was a struggling economy and facing set backs on all fronts. SACHIN was one of the very few things Indians can feel proud about during those days. People use to turn off the TV once sachin use to get out. He had pan India fan following and hardly any haters. All of this was in the time when there was no hype and PR machinery to create reverence for a cricketer. Some years back I was in kerala, and I was astonished to find fans of sachin among the guys who don't even like cricket. 

 

To put things in perspective, Dhoni may become the most popular player of India but he can never become an emotion that sachin was. 

Yup. He inspired lot of guys. Kohli, Sehwag.

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Mallu fans love Sachin more than mumbai fans themselves lol I can see a "maria sharapova" effect here

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Oh my Ngidi is showering praise 

[PBN 2,264]

tbh, i'm totally baffled by the rise of popularity of dhoni especially more so in this IPL.  it's crazy how so many people idolize him.  wouldn't have thought dhoni had such massive fan following

[velu 20,228]

7 minutes ago, PBN said:

what happened around nov 2016 to create that spike. dhoni gave up odi captaincy around jan 2017

 

maybe .. didnt bother to check the spikes 

[zen 8,244]

14 minutes ago, velu said:

 

dhoni started very late .. dhoni is ahead from 2011 as well

 

Ok. Otherwise the result could indicate that Sachin is still popular even after his retirement 

 

Also we don’t know what is driving those searches. For e.g. Trump- Kim meeting could drive their respective searches 

Edited May 20, 2018 by zen

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Forget about Sachin. Kohli with his phenomenal talent averaging 50 across the formats should have been more popular than Dhoni. We don't see any such reception for him.

[Zelig 1,997]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

Forget about Sachin. Kohli with his phenomenal talent averaging 50 across the formats should have been more popular than Dhoni. We don't see any such reception for him.

Average Indian doesn't like cockiness.

[velu 20,228]

3 minutes ago, zen said:

Ok. Otherwise the result could indicate that Sachin is still popular even after his retirement 

 

Also we don’t know what is driving those searches. For e.g. Trump- Kim meeting could drive their respective searches 

 

anyway currently dhoni is more popular

and i am not saying that he will stay at #1 forever 

 

heard this in select commentary as well ( kumble , deano .. were discussing about dhonis popularity ) .. after vvs ka post i thought we have a good potential with this topic

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Just now, Zelig said:

Average Indian doesn't like cockiness.

I think female following is a lot more for him for his coolness. That is one aspect i have noticed. Some of my relatives (females who don't really follow cricket that much) became his fan after listening to one post match interview. ICF pulse is very very different. 

[Shunya 2,975]

Way more popular. Oldies dont want to accept that newer generations does not care about Sachin. He is past. They are more or less settled on forums like ICF where they want to glorify past and live in their dream world.

Also, since T20 cricket(IPL) has brought in more crowd, most of them revere Dhoni and have no clue about Sachin. Dhoni pops nowadays in stadiums are just so awesome to see, almost like how WWE had Austin and Rock entries.

 

In any case, India continues to love Dhoni regardless of what ICF feels.

[velu 20,228]

i am not sure whether 1970s ka kids still think kapil or gavaskar is still more popular than current players 

[Trichromatic 4,790]

Sachin is 2nd most influential Indian after Mahatma Gandhi.

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

Just now, Trichromatic said:

Sachin is 2nd most influential Indian after Mahatma Gandhi.

Not in Modi era lol Rightnow Godse is more popular than Gandhi

[Trichromatic 4,790]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

Not in Modi era lol Rightnow Godse is more popular than Gandhi

Modi is far behind and Godse is unknown mostly.

[jusarrived 2,479]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

Sachin got booed by his own crowd once if i remember right. I mean he is hugely popular across the world.  But level of craze is more for Dhoni. 10000 people went just to see him going to have a haircut :)

It was in Mumbai , England test and I was there . As much as I wanted Tendulkar to retire , it was pretty sad to see

 

58 minutes ago, Scar said:

Any Google trend is not enough to quantify the effect sachin had on cricket. 

The socio-economic structure of India was very much different to what we have now. 

 

India was a struggling economy and facing set backs on all fronts. SACHIN was one of the very few things Indians can feel proud about during those days. People use to turn off the TV once sachin use to get out. He had pan India fan following and hardly any haters. All of this was in the time when there was no hype and PR machinery to create reverence for a cricketer. Some years back I was in kerala, and I was astonished to find fans of sachin among the guys who don't even like cricket. 

 

To put things in perspective, Dhoni may become the most popular player of India but he can never become an emotion that sachin was. 

To an extent I agree , but some one like Kapil an WC winning All-rounder would have been way ahead of both Dhoni and Tendulkar . People at least had TVs to watch Tendulkar , imagine some one like Kapil today , he would have been not just Indian teams most valuable player but also the hottest players in IPL . 

[vvvslaxman 12,282]

You are right about Kapil dev. He had everything. Great bowler, Great hitter, Great fielder. Successful captain. He would have been darling of everyone. WHy now. Even back then when Kapil was dropped for Kolkatta test after he played a lofted shot to get out at Delhi, entire Kolkatta crowd booed Sunil Gavaskar.  Kapil was a very very popular cricketer ala Dhoni is now.

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03 14,584]

Cant compare the popularity of 25 yr career to 13-14 yr career but dhoni is not far and he cud be up their if he does well in the last leg of his career 

[adi B 4,651]

Nope ,but he's the only one close and thats mostly because of the ipl factor.

Kohli not there yet but when dhoni retires he'll too reach that level and people will then say he's more popular than dhoni 

[velu 20,228]

1 hour ago, Trichromatic said:

Sachin is 2nd most influential Indian after Mahatma Gandhi.

 

who gave that award to sachin ? 

[velu 20,228]

17 minutes ago, adi B said:

Nope ,but he's the only one close and thats mostly because of the ipl factor.

Kohli not there yet but when dhoni retires he'll too reach that level and people will then say he's more popular than dhoni 

 

dont go just based on ICF .. ICF emerged with whn sachin was popular ..

becaue of the emergance of facebook/reddit , new generation of people are not joining the sites like ICF ( same goes with other domain like finance as well ) ..

 

google trend shows otherwise

 

[Trichromatic 4,790]

2 hours ago, Shunya said:

Way more popular. Oldies dont want to accept that newer generations does not care about Sachin. He is past. They are more or less settled on forums like ICF where they want to glorify past and live in their dream world.

Also, since T20 cricket(IPL) has brought in more crowd, most of them revere Dhoni and have no clue about Sachin. Dhoni pops nowadays in stadiums are just so awesome to see, almost like how WWE had Austin and Rock entries.

  

In any case, India continues to love Dhoni regardless of what ICF feels.

Dhoni's most of good years have overlapped with SRT's career.

[Rasgulla 7,069]

2 hours ago, Shunya said:

Way more popular. Oldies dont want to accept that newer generations does not care about Sachin. He is past. They are more or less settled on forums like ICF where they want to glorify past and live in their dream world.

Also, since T20 cricket(IPL) has brought in more crowd, most of them revere Dhoni and have no clue about Sachin. Dhoni pops nowadays in stadiums are just so awesome to see, almost like how WWE had Austin and Rock entries.

 

In any case, India continues to love Dhoni regardless of what ICF feels.

ICF oldies(sachin chamchas) needs to retire from this forum. 

[Trichromatic 4,790]

Facebook

SRT - 28M followers

Dhoni - 20M followers

 

Twitter

SRT - 20M followers

Dhoni - 7M followers.

 

 

[Trichromatic 4,790]

2 hours ago, Anoop K said:

No.Sachin was way more popular. There was a report how sourav got angry when he was completely overshadowed by sachin's stardom when they arrived to play a match in the year 2001/02. 

Sachin even after his retirement is one of the most searched cricketer.

When was the last time an active "way more popular" celebrity had lower number of followers than a retired celebrity on social media?

 

At least you would expect numbers to be close, but that's not the case.