Virat Kohli become the highest earning sportsperson in the Forbes List 2017-18 as an Indian celebrity

Virat Kohli become the highest earning sportsperson in the Forbes List 2017-18 as an Indian celebrity

He stands third in the list of Indian celebrities, behind Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.

A day after displacing Shah Rukh Khan as India’s biggest brand in 2017, Virat Kohli found himself as the third-highest earning Indian on Forbes India’s list of the 100 highest earning celebrities in the country this year.

Forbes had described Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli as the “Indian cricket phenom”

To calculate the earnings and their equivalent rankings, the list puts in estimates based on the celebrities’ earning in their related fields. Estimates are taken from experts, management agencies (as well as advertising agencies), field consultants as well as professionals (including publishers and celebrity managers) in order to ascertain a figure.

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Bollywood actors Salman Khan (Rs 232.83 crore) and Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 170.5 crore) continue to be the biggest earning celebrities in the country, with Kohli (Rs 100.72 crore) following them in the third position.

Other prominent Indian cricketers include Sachin Tendulkar, who is second in the sports list at (Rs 82.50 crore), while Kohli’s captaincy predecessor, MS Dhoni is third (Rs 63.77 crore). Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (Rs 34.67 crore) is the fourth-highest-earning cricketer, followed by Ravindra Jadeja, who stands fifth. A total of 21 sporting icons are part of the top-100.

Having taken a break from the Sri Lanka limited-overs series, Kohli will be back in action for the upcoming tour of South Africa that begins from January 5.

Having beaten Lionel Messi in Forbes’ Top 10 list of the most valuable celebrities in 2017, Kohli has proven that he is also a global brand, set to achieve greater glories in the future.

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