5 most followed cricketers on Instagram

Social media has become an integral part of everyone's lives. Cricketers are extremely active on social media platforms, especially Instagram, where they update their fans on their daily lives. From posting pictures of their workouts to posting pictures with their loved ones, fans are up to date with their favourite cricketers lives thanks to the picture sharing platform.

With the help of certain features on Instagram, fans are even able to witness what it is like on the field after their favourite team wins a match and when the players go on to lift the trophy.

Just a few hours ago, it was reported that Indian cricket team captain, Virat Kohli, earns a whopping $120,000 per Instagram post, ranked above the likes of American basketball star Stephen Curry ($110,000 per post) and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather ($107,000 per post).

With each passing month, the number of followers for each cricketer continues to increase.

Here are the top 5 most followed cricketers on Instagram:

#5 Rohit Sharma - 6.5 million

The 'Hitman' of Indian cricket is one of the most popular cricketers not only in India, but the world. His popularity grew manifold after his exploits with the bat over the past few years. He remains to be the only cricketer to have scored three double centuries and also holds the record for the highest individual score in ODI cricket (264), which came against Sri Lanka.

His pictures on Instagram are not usually cricket related. He posts a lot of pictures along with his wife Ritika Sajdeh, who herself has a whopping 930,000 followers.

Apart from this, he posts a lot of pictures of the places he travels to and posts many pictures of him with his Indian teammates. He also promotes a few brands on Instagram, for which he gets paid.

He currently has 6.5 million followers and we could expect to see this number reach the 10 million mark soon.

#4 AB de Villiers

Mr 360, as he is fondly called, shocked the entire world when he announced his retirement from international cricket during the Indian Premier Leauge, right before the qualifiers.

However, he remains to be one of the most followed cricketers on Instagram. He has the most number of followers for a non-Indian cricketer. One of the reasons for the high number of followers is because of the number of fans he has in India.

He also refrains from posting much about cricket. Instead, he posts a lot of pictures of places where he travels to and posts pictures with his family.

#3 Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 10.8 million

MS Dhoni, the former captain of the Indian cricket team, is a lot less active on the social media platform when compared to most of his other teammates.

Majority of his posts include pictures of him along with his wife and daughter. He has also uploaded a few pictures with his dogs.

He is one of the most successful captains in the history of world cricket, winning the ICC World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and ICC World T20.

#2 Sachin Tendulkar - 11 million

Despite Sachin Tendulkar retiring over five years ago, he continues to be one of the fan favourites, with a whopping 11 million followers on Instagram.

He predominantly posts promotional videos with brands and companies he is associated with. Apart from that, he always remembers to wish his former teammates and friends a happy birthday by posting a picture along with them.

Sachin retired back in 2013 as arguably the greatest batsman of all time.

#1 Virat Kohli - 23.2 million

It comes as no surprise that the Indian cricket team captain tops this list. He is extremely active on social media, posting pictures almost on a daily basis.

He also charges a whopping $120,000 for each sponsored post.

He posts pictures along with his wife Anushka Sharma, who herself has 18.2 million followers. He also posts a lot of promotional videos and posts pictures along with his teammates.