Virat Kohli continues to dominate cricket on and off the field. The Indian captain has once again emerged as the only cricketer in the top-10 list of highest-earning athletes on popular social media platform Instagram.

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The figures, which were collected by Attain during the lockdown period of March 12 to May 14, showed Kohli's name among the most eminent sports personalities around the world.

Virat ranks at 6th position in this esteemed list as he reportedly earned 379,294 pounds through his sponsored posts during the lockdown period. He had shared just three posts during this time and accumulated 126,431 pounds per photo.

The list is headed by Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo with an estimated earning of 1.8 million pounds through his posts on Instagram.

Ronaldo’s rival Lionel Messi Paris St. Germain forward Neymar occupy the second and third spots with earnings of 1.2 million and 1.1 million respectively.

Basketball great Shaquille O'Neal earned 583,628 pounds while former England footballer David Beckham took up the fifth spot in the list with reported earnings of 405,359 pounds.

 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (184,413 pounds), Dwayne Wade (143,146), Dani Alves (133,694) and Anthony Joshua (121,500) also featured in the top-10 list of highest earning athletes during the lockdown period worldwide.

(Inputs from IANS)