New Delhi. It would not be wrong to say that this time is difficult for Virat Kohli. Known as the Indian run machine, Virat Kohli has dominated these days due to his poor performance. Earlier Kohli’s bat which used to show amazing, now it remains calm. Even though Kohli may not be able to run his fire on the field, but his fire off the field still remains intact. With this, Kohli has created a new history and that too on Instagram. Actually, former Indian team captain Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer in the world who has the highest number of Instagram followers. King Kohli’s social media platform Instagram has become 200 million fans, which till now does not belong to any cricketer.
Even though Kohli has not scored a century in the last two years, but Kohli has done wonders by scoring a double century on Instagram. If you look at the list of followers of all the sports legends around the world, then Kohli comes at number three in this list. The most followed worldwide on Instagram is Portugal’s star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. After this comes Argentine footballer Lionel Messi.
See here, the list of the most followed sports stalwarts
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- Cristiano Ronaldo – 451 million
- Lionel Messi – 334 million
- Virat Kohli – 200 million
- Neymar Jr – 175 million
- LeBron James – 123 million
Kohli has been rested for the Africa series
Virat Kohli was recently seen playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In this IPL 2022 season, Kohli played a total of 16 matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). In them, Kohli scored just 341 runs at a poor average of 22.73. During this, Kohli hit only two fifties and was out for a golden duck three times. A day later, from June 9, Team India has to play a series of 5 T20 matches against South Africa at home. In such a situation, Kohli has been rested.