Indian captain Virat Kohli is undoubtedly one of the highest-earning cricketers around the world. His brand value is so high that none of his contemporaries even comes closer to him in comparison. But as per the latest data collated by Attain, Kohli finds himself among the top 10 highest-earning sports personalities in the social media platform Instagram.
Indian captain Virat Kohli happens to be the only cricketer in this list which contains some of the most recognized sports personalities around the globe. The list was collated by considering their earnings during the lockdown period from March 12 to May 14.
Kohli is placed at the sixth spot with an earning of 379,294 pounds through his sponsored posts during this lockdown period. Surprisingly he had only shared just 3 posts during this period and still managed to earn a whopping 126,431 pounds per photo through the photos that he shared through his Instagram handle.
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The illustrious list is dominated by prominent football players. Portuguese and Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo tops the chart. He is estimated to have earned nearly 1.8 million pounds through his posts on Instagram.
Whereas his contemporaries Lionel Messi and Neymar Jr. are placed at numbers two and three with an estimated earning of 1.2 and 1.1 million respectively. Even though quite comparable in terms of their on-field performances, Ronaldo outscored them in terms of the social media brand value.
Basketball great Shaquille O’Neal and former English footballer David Beckham completed the top 5 with reported earnings of 583,628 and 405,359pounds respectively. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Dwayne Wade, Dani Alves, and Anthony Joshua followed Kohli to complete the top 10 of this illustrious list.
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It was not for the first time that Kohli found himself in such an illustrious list. Earlier this month he was included in the Forbes list of Top 100 richest sports personalities around the world. As it turned out, he was the only cricketer who made it to that list too.
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