the year 2017 was a special one for sports as indian athletes brought in the accolades and fans celebrated on twitter from india making it to the final of the ct17 to srikanth kidambi becoming the first indian badminton player to win 4 super series titles sports formed a bulk of the conversation on twitter heres a look at all the highlights from the year gone byiconic sports tweet of the yearaggressive on the field and a true gentleman off it virat kohli showed hes just that when he thanked ms dhoni for all his years as india captain youll always be my captain his tweet read this wasnt the first time kohli showed how much he values indias senior pros sachin has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years it was time we carried him an emotional kohli had said when india won the world cup well fans on twitter have always taken a certain liking to kohlis humility so when he paid tribute to ms dhoni as the legend retired from captaincy users ensured the tweet reached far and widegolden tweet of the year when it came to the overall golden tweet of the year kohli wasnt far away from the action again the india captain confirmed his wedding with bollywood star anushka sharma on twitter and that was enough to send the fans on a retweeting spreetop hashtag trendswhile cricket continues to dominate the indian sporting sentiment this year saw a slight twist to the trend with the womens game getting recognition ipl and indvspak saw some new company with wwc17 as the likes of harmanpreet kaur and mithali raj got the fans buzzing on twitteriplfan engagement touched new heights on twitter as the ipl completed its 10th season to mark this landmark season twitter celebrated ipl10 with special emojis fans tweeted the hashtag ipl which unlocked an emojiindvpakindvpak the biggest rivalry clash broke all the records in 2017 ct17 saw the record for the most tweeted one day international of all time being broken by the india vs pakistan final with 18 million tweetsct17compared to the 2013 icc champions trophy tournament this year saw a 4x growth in the usage of the official hashtag ct17indvausif we talk about the cricket and team indias rivals the second name which comes after pakistan is indvaus in 2017 when australia toured india teamindia ruled the hearts on and off the field by winning the 5match odi serieswwc17twitter was the best place to keep up with and talk about it all as the top eight odi nations teams battled to clinch the title of the icc womens world cup wwc1710 most talked about sporting moments on twitter as they occurredwhile sporting tournaments drew in the chatter individual moments of brilliance on the field led to heightened conversations around sport on twitter right from roger federer winning his 18th grand slam to pakistan upsetting india in the champions trophy final twitter became the centre for conversation around it alldhoni