The Indian cricketer Virat Kohli may have given up the captaincy of the Indian cricket team but his popularity and brand value still remain intact and recently he got featured in the Instagram’s Rich List of 2021. The official Hopper HQ released its list of Instagram rich of 2021 and Virat Kohli is the only Indian who made it in the list of top 20s.
The former Indian skipper is at the 19th position with 179 million followers on Instagram and he charges around $680000 per Instagram post. Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the second Indian in the list, she is at the 27th position and she charges around $403000 per Instagram post. If we talk about cricketers, another cricketer who is on the list is the former South African cricketer AB de Villiers and he is on the 76th position.
The top slot has been secured by the famous professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo who charges a huge amount of $1,604,000 per IG post and he is followed by Dwayne Johnson, Ariana Grande, Kylie Jenner and Selene Gomez.
Virat Kohli is not just the most followed cricketer on Instagram but he is also the most followed personality in Asia. Recently, he gave up his test captaincy after India lost the three match series by 2-1 to South Africa and earlier Rohit Sharma replaced him as the ODI captain. Prior to that, Virat Kohli voluntarily gave up his T20I and IPL captaincy but the experts feel that leaving captaincy won’t be making much damage to his brand value and he will keep on ruling the advertisement world.
During an interview with the leading daily, the MD & CEO at Future brands, Santosh Desai said that Virat Kohli not being the skipper won’t be affecting his brand value at least in the short run and his relationship with Anushka Sharma will certainly make things easy for him but in the long run, Kohli’s form will be the most important point. Santosh Desai gave the example of former the Indian cricketer MS Dhoni by saying that even now we get to see Dhoni in every other commercial.
Mahi is still playing in the IPL and is the only skipper to win three major ICC trophies (ICC T20 World Cup 2007, ICC World Cup 2011 and ICC Champions Trophy 2013). He is also the second most successful skipper of the tournament as Chennai Super Kings has won the IPL four times under his leadership.
Virat Kohli will now be seen in the 3-match ODI series against South Africa starting 19th January.
