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Cricket is the most popular among Indian sports and with that kind of popularity, it arises a huge amount of money. Virat Kohli is the third richest cricketer in the world. Virat Kohli has a net worth of about $127 million (around 1155 crore in Indian Rupees) in 2023 which led him to rank under the top 100 in the world’s highest-paid athlete list. He emerges as the highest-earning Indian athlete in 2022, earning around 256.52 crore via ads. In this blog, we will look at Virat Kohli’s net worth, salary, brands, cars, investments, etc.
- The former captain of the Indian cricket team earns huge!
Virat Kohli Biography
Virat Kohli born on November 5, 1988 in New Delhi made his international debut for India at the age of 19 in 2008. According to his family, when he was three years old, a young Kohli picked up a cricket bat and started to swing it, asking his father to bowl at him. Kohli grew up in Uttam Nagar and did his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public School.
The former captain of the Indian cricket team has the most followers on Social Media. In 2018, Kohli became the first Asian captain to conquest the Test in South Africa, England, and Australia in a calendar year. Coming from a modest middle-class family to one of the highest paid celebrity in our country, this man has seen it all, courtesy: Hard work, sacrifice and greatest discipline throughout his journey. The 34-year-old Run Machine is currently living his dream life outside his cricketing circle. He is currently married to actress Anushka Sharma, a Bollywood actress.
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Virat Kohli Net Worth: Salary
Being a skipper of Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli is currently under BCCI top A+ contract which includes only four players (Virat Kohli, Jadeja, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah). This contract ensures Virat Kohli the salary of Rs 7 crore per annum. In IPL 2023, Virat Kohli purchased by RCB for RS 15 crore.
Virat Kohli: Love for Cars & Other Assets
Being the spokesperson for Audi obviously has its perquisites – like free set of cool wheels from time to time. Apart from Audi R8, Kohli is a proud owner of, BMW X6, Range Rover and Lamborghini among others.
Virat Kohli Car Collections
- Audi R8 LMX
- Bentley Continental GT
- Land Rover Vogue
- Audi R8 V10 Plus
In 2023, Virat Kohli has sold most of his cars and quoted
“Most of the cars I used to own were impulsive buys, I ended up hardly driving or travelling in them as well”
Virat Kohli Bike Collections
- Kawasaki Ninja H2R
- Triumph Rocket 3
- Suzuki Hayabusa
- Honda Fireblade
- Ducati Multistrada 1200, and more
After Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma tied the knot in Tuscany, the duo moved to a sea-facing apartment in Worli, Mumbai. This property costs Rs nine crore. Delhi ka Ladka is known to reside in an elegant bungalow that has been purchased in the capital of the country and in his hometown which costs nearly Rs 80 crore.
Virat Kohli Net Worth: Endorsements
The net worth of Indian skipper is moving up with a rocket-speed and thanks to his endorsements. Virat Kohli’s net worth has a lot to do with his endorsement he does for number of brands. Kohli does a lot of promotions and endorsement for various products in the market which in-return he receives surplus amount. Blue Tribe, Rage Coffee, Toothsi, Avas Living, Noise, etc are some of the brands been endorsed by Virat Kohli.
Brand Talk
Kohli endorse as many as 20 brands with estimated endorsement value of more than Rs 200 crore. PUMA and MRF are some big company Kohli is associated with. In 2017, the prolific batsman signed a deal of Rs 110 crore with Puma for eight years.
He also endorsed brands like- Colgate, Palmolive, Audi, Tissot, Amaze batteries and inverters , Hero motoCorp, Volini, Too Yumm, Manyavar, American Tourister, Uber, Vicks, Philips India and more. His recent deal with Uber has sky-rocketed his revenue and brand value.
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Virat Kohli Net Worth: Investments
Virat Kohli is earning some serious amount of money but concerning about his future and a being a smart person on-field he is smarter off-field too. As a result, Virat makes lots of investment in the various fields.
Celebrities venturing into the restaurant business are nothing new. For Virat, it is Nueva in New Delhi which serves South American cuisine. We all know he is a football lover which led up to being an owner of a football club. He is the co-owner of FC Goa (Indian Super League club). Kohli owns the stakes around 25 percent. Apart from sports, Kohli is tech-savvy too. Sports Convo is a London based Tech Start up. He also owns another restaurant chain, One8 Commune.
This heartthrob has made an entry in clothing industry too. Virat kohli is a co-owner of Wrogn and a brand ambassador too. One thing Kohli never compromise is his fitness. Fitness enthusiast therefore has begun with his own gym chain and a new venture named CHISEL GYM. He has invested almost Rs 90 crore into this venture.
A true-gentleman
We have seen Virat Kohli as an aggressive cricketer who is a superb batsman and a captain. Many of us would hardly believe it, but he has a sensitive and soft side to him as well. That is shown in his charity work. The skipper of Indian cricket team Virat Kohli once said,
“If I am able to inspire kids to achieve something that will be my biggest achievement.”
Kohli has a charity foundation named ‘Virat Kohli Foundation’ (VKF) which collaborates with NGOs to help raise funds and help children.
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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and has a net worth of $127 Million in 2023.
Virat Kohli owns sports brands like One8 and Wrogn.
Virat Kohli launched Chisel in 2015. The vision of the brand is to create the most cutting-edge, hyperactive fitness chain across India and other countries.
In 2017, Virat Kohli signed a deal of Rs 110 crore with Puma for eight years.
He doesn’t deserve all this he has so much of arrogance, attitude I don’t know why everyone just follow him and run back to him like a dog he is playing cricket and he is being paid for that it’s his job to play and he got all the resources so he will have to perform well there are many who are doing great but nobody is paying attention to them cricket is a team game whole team should be appreciated not only the one person if he would have done something great in solo game than its would have been great to follow him but not now.
Why are you do up tight about virat, he deserves a compliment for his achievement, give the person his dues, cheers