Virat Kohli is the poster man of Indian cricket for the last couple of years. Ever sense Virat Kohli bust on to the big state after his under 19 World Cup triumph he has been the star attraction in the world cricket. Now Virat Kohli has emerged as one of the leading athletes around the globe. His popularity has increased exponentially.
A report now suggest that he is earning whooping amount of rupees 2.5 crore for a single Tweet from his Twitter handle.
Virat Kohli has had the best of both worlds. His professional life as a cricketer has always seen an upward curve in terms of performance. To compliment that he has had a beautiful transition in personal life too where he was once a young dashing lad with some questionable attitude but has matured throughout the last decade and now is a man with class.
Over the last decade he has been scoring runs like a machine and has been breaking batting records for fun. Captaincy has given him no burden whatsoever. He seems to relish it and is creating history as a test captain too.
Virat Kohli’s unmatched success on the cricket field has given raise to Virat Kohli the brand. He has crazy fan following all over social media with as much as 50.5 million Instagram followers and 33.8m Twitter followers. He has done various endorsements .
His bat deal with MRF is said to be the costliest deal in Indian cricket history. In 2017, he signed an eight-year endorsement deal with Puma worth about ₹1.1 billions becoming the first Indian sportsperson to sign a ₹1 billion deal with a brand.
Racing to reach Ronaldo
As per the reports of Bleacher Report, the Indian skipper gets $350,101 for his one tweet which is roughly 2.5 cores .He is currently on the fifth position in that list that consists of players like Cristiano Ronaldo (Football), Iniesta (Football), Neymar (Football) and Lebron James (Basketball).
At the moment, Ronaldo earns a hefty amount of $868,604 for his one tweet followed by Iniesta $590,825, Neymar $478,138 and James $470,356, who are ahead of Virat Kohli.
In the previous year, Forbes also included Virat Kohli in the list of among the world’s highest-paid athletes. It will be interesting to see if Indian skipper can beat his competitors going into the future.