Sunil Narine's fastest fifty fires up Twitter trends

The Indian Premier League has all but reached the business end, each game is leading a team into or out of the race of the playoffs. Thus far with just 7 more league games to be played only one team in Mumbai Indians has managed to seal a top 4 berth. Mumbai was the most talked about IPL team in the Twitter Cricket Index for week 5.

It was a powerpack week 5 of the Indian Premier League season 10 as fans got to enjoy the best of IPL moments. With young Rishabh Pant getting things off to a fiery start with a 43-ball 97 that saw Delhi Daredevils complete their highest successful run-chase of 209 runs. Towards the end, Sunil Narine lit up the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru with the fastest half century of the season scoring 50 runs off just 15 balls against the home team. Fans Tweeted out in huge numbers in the week 5 supporting their

Fans Tweeted out in huge numbers in the week 5 supporting their favourite teams and players with special IPL player emojis. Among the top 5 moments of the week were Pant and Narine’s fireworks with the bat, Mumbai Indians scoring 213/3 against the Delhi Daredevils. Rising Pune Supergiant pacer Jaydev Unadkat picking a five-wicket haul which included a last over hat-trick maiden and South African star batsman Hashim Amla’s second century of the season.

Here is the Twitter Cricket Index for the week 5 of IPL-10:

Top Moments (Generated the most conversation)

1. Sunil Narine hitting the fastest fifty (15 balls) against RCB in the Green match
2. Rishabh Pant getting out on 97 of 43-balls
3. End of the first innings Mumbai Indians scoring 212/3 #DDvMI
4. Jaidev Unadkat gets a hat-trick maiden over, winning the match for Pune #SRHvRPS
5. Hashim Amla hits century. His 2nd ton in IPL-10.

The top matches of the week were:

Most talked about matches (Most Tweeted official match hashtags)

1. #DDvGL
2. #RCBvKKR
3. #KKRvRPS
4. #DDvMI
5. #RCBvKXIP

Most talked about team of the week

1. Mumbai Indians
2. Royal Challengers Bangalore
3. Kolkata Knight Riders

Continuing his leading position former RPS captain MS Dhoni led the Twitter – IPL player emoji leaderboard for week 5.