Virat Kohli the Richest Sports Personality in 2017 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List

Team India skipper Virat Kohli has arguably been the most sought after cricketer in the recent past and boasts of a sensational record across all 3 formats of the game. It is due to his consistency and popularity across the world that he remains at the top of the list of sports personalities in the Latest Forbes List where the highest earners are named. Kohli’s tally reads Rs 100.72 crores which put him in the 3^rd position in the 100 celebrity list just behind Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Badhshah of Bollywood with estimated earnings of Rs 233 crores and Rs 170.5 crores respectively.

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All of the 3 players finished top three in the year 2016 but their cumulative earnings have gone down by 20%. Shuttler OV Sindhy us 4^th in the list as a sportsperson and is the highest money gainer in percentage terms. Her brand has been on the upward rise ever since she bagged a silver medal in Olympic 2016. It has positively impacted her earnings which got increased by nearly 17 times. The calculation which goes into making the Forbes list deals with the subsequent rankings based on estimates of entertainment-related earnings of celebrities.

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Sachin Tendulkar is 2^nd in the list among sports personalities with earnings over Rs 82.50 crores while former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni occupies the 3^rd position with Rs 63.77 crores and Ravichandran Ashwin with Rs 36.67 crores rounds of the top five cricketers in the world.Other sportspeople other than cricketers in the list are Saina Nehwal (RS 31 crores), golfer Anirban Lahiri (Rs 12.44 crores), Kidambi Srikanth (Rs 6.13 crores), Sania Mirza (Rs 2.80 crores) and Sunil Chhetri at the 100^th position with earnings of Rs 2.30 crores.

Virat Kohli’s rise to the peak has been pretty sensational and within 9 years in internal cricket, Kohli already has many records up his sleeve. Very recently he broke Ricky Ponting’s record to become the 2^nd most century makers in ODI cricket. During the test series in Sri Lanka, Kohli made another record by becoming the only captain to smash 6 test double centuries.

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