Virat Kohli, the former captain of the Indian team, where keeps on making new records with his bat on the field. At the same time, he has made a new record on social media as well. Virat Kohli recently showed his bat power in the 16th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Now the number of followers on his social media account Instagram has also crossed 250 million.

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With the number of followers on Virat Kohli's Instagram account reaching beyond 250 million, he has become the first Indian in this matter. Virat Kohli has become the first such cricketer in Asia whose Instagram account has achieved this position. In the sports world, Virat Kohli is at number three in terms of number of followers on Instagram.

Two great players in the football world have more followers than Virat Kohli on Instagram. The name of Cristiano Ronaldo is number one, he has more than 585 million followers. On the other hand, there is Lionel Messi whose number of followers is 462 million followers. Please tell that Virat Kohli also earns crores for social media posts. In this, he gets around 8 crore rupees for a post.

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Scored more than 600 runs this season of IPL

Virat Kohli's form looked very good in the 16th season of IPL even though his team could not qualify for the playoffs. Kohli scored 639 runs while batting in 14 innings this season. It also includes 2 consecutive century innings. With this, now Kohli has reached first place with 7 centuries in terms of scoring the most centuries in IPL history.