Virat Kohli continues to make waves on social media with the India cricket team skipper finding himself among the top 10 sportsmen in the 2018 Instagram Rich List released by Hopper HQ on Wednesday.
The Indian cricket superstar is featured 17th overall in the list for 2018, which measures the monetary value of a single Instagram post. The Hopper HQ list takes into consideration the amount of followers, per post engagement and the frequency of posts to arrive at its conclusion.
Kohli is the only cricketer to feature in the top 75 people on the list which is headed by celebrity Kylie Jenner who rakes in approximately $1 million per post on her Instagram. In comparison, the India star’s per post monetary value is estimated at $120,000.
Among sports athletes, Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is the leader with a per Instagram post value of $750,000 while Brazil’s Neymar and Argentina’s Lionel Messi are in the second and third position respectively.
Neymar is estimated to draw in $600,000 per post while Messi makes about $500,000 approximately.
England’s David Beckham, Real Madrid star Gareth Bale, Barcelona’s Luiz Suarez, LA Galaxy striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and MMA stalwart Conor McGregor are the other sports athletes who feature ahead of Kohli on the list.
Kohli is ranked ahead of NBA’s Stephen Curry in the list.
Kohli’s value is pegged to be higher than NBA star Stephan Curry of the Golden State Warriors and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather who are featured in 18th and 19th spots respectively in the overall list.
The 29-year-old India batsman has a follower count of 23.2 million currently on Instagram.
