The captain of the Indian national cricket team, Virat Kohli became the only cricketer in the list of world’s top-10 highest-earning athletes by sponsored Instagram postings at the time of lockdown. Virat was in the sixth position. The figure was assembled by ‘Attain’ from March 12 to May 14, when the whole world is in lockdown to constrain the growth of COVID-19. As per the list, Virat Kohli earned a total amount of 379,294 pounds by his sponsored posts and ranking up 126, 431 pounds for each post.