Team India and IPL franchise RCB’s Captain Virat Kohli is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the current generation.

Such is the following of Kohli’s batting exploits that the Indian batting great has now become the first Indian to have over 70 million followers on the video sharing, social media platform Instagram.

Kohli who will be bidding for his first IPL title win this year has now amassed 70.1 Mn followers.

Kohli is also India’s most valuable celebrity. He also remains the sports world’s only representative in the list of top 10 most followed Indian celebrities on Instagram.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the second most followed Indian on Instagram and is followed by 55.4 million users.

Shradha Kapoor comes third in the list with 51.4 M followers.

India skipper Virat Kohli emerged as the only cricketer in the world’s top-10 list of highest-earning athletes through sponsored Instagram posts during the lockdown, according to a report.