India cricket captain Virat Kohli is ranked 9th on the Instagram Rich List 2019 in the sports category. The rich list was released recently by Hopper HQ. The top 10 list in sports is topped by Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 172.8 million followers and earns $9,75,000 per Instagram post, as per the list available on Hopper HQ website.

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Kohli, who led India's campaign in the recently concluded Cricket World Cup, is ranked nine on the list of top 10 sports personalities. Kohli earns $1,96,000  (approx: Rs 1,35,30,370 or Rs 1.3 crore). He has 36,159,776 followers. 
Hopper HQ has released Instagram Rich List 2019, which is divided into 10 categories -  Celebrity, Beauty, Fashion, Fitness, Food, Lifestyle, Sport and Travel. 

Another Indian in the top 100 is actress Priyanka Chopra. She has 43,038,343 followers and earns $271,000 (approx Rs 1.8 crore) per Instagram post. In the overall global rich list, Kohli is placed at number 23.

In the list of sports personalities, No. 1 ranked Ronaldo plays football for Italian giants Juventus. He ranks third in the overall global tally. Brazil's Neymar is second on the list with 121.4 million followers and $7,22,000 per Instagram post followed by Argentine star Lionel Messi who has 123.5 million followers and earns $6,48,000 per Instagram post. 

England's iconic ex-captain David Beckham, basketball star LeBron James, Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldinho, Wales' Gareth Bale, Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic complete the top 8-list with Kohli, rated as the best batsman in the world, featuring ninth. Uruguay's Luis Suarez is the tenth player

Instagram Rich List 2019 (Sports)

*Source: Hopper HQ

 

1. Cristiano Ronaldo 
2. Neymar da Silva Santos Junior 
3. Lionel Messi 
4. David Beckham 
5. LeBron James 
6. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira 
7. Gareth Bale 
8. Zlatan Ibrahimovic 
9. Virat Kohli 
10. Luis Suarez