Former Royal Challengers Bangalore’s captain and star batsman Virat Kohli is, heading into the IPL 2023, the leading run-scorer in the history of the Indian Premier League.
He, being one of the only few players to have played in all 15 Indian Premier League seasons, has amassed 6411 runs in 216 Premier League games, and has smashed 5 hundreds to go with 42 half-centuries in the competition.
The 34-year-old has become one of the, if not the biggest icons of the Indian Premier League with broadcasters and sponsors feeding off his success, his stardom, and his craze among the fans. In turn, Former RCB Skipper has been racking in the big bucks since he took over RCB’s captaincy, and has been retained in the top bracket by RCB over the last three Indian League cycles.
In 2018, Former RCB Skipper became the first player whose salary in the Indian Premier League breached the INR 17 crore mark, with RCB shelling out this amount per season, for the next 4 seasons, for the superstar former India captain
Then, ahead of the IPL 2022 mega-auction, Former RCB Skipper agreed on lowering his salary to INR 15 crore after stepping down as RCB’s captain.
Virat Kohli’s salary for Indian Premier League 2023 is INR 15 crore
There are a few players who will be earning more in the 2023 in salary than him INR 15 crore.
Here are 5 players who have a higher salary than Kohli in Indian League 2023:
Rohit Sharma – INR 16 crore
The Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma was retained in the highest bracket of INR 16 crore ahead of the IPL 2022 mega-auction. He will continue with this same salary for Indian Premier League.
MI Skipper is the highest-earning player in the Indian based league history: in 16 seasons, Skipper has made INR 178.6 crore in salaries.
KL Rahul
LSG Skipper was, in fact, the highest earner in IPL 2022 with INR 17 crore.
Ravindra Jadeja – INR 16 crore
Dhoni had handed the captaincy duties to Former CSK Skipper before the Indian Premier League 2022 started. But, after losing 6 out of 8 matches, Former CSK Skipper gave the captaincy armband back to Dhoni, but his salary is the same for Indian League 2023.
Sam Curran – INR 18.5 crore
Coming off a memorable T20 World Cup winning campaign, English all rounder got big bids in the auction with MI, RCB, CSK, RR, LSG in the fray but PBKS managed to get back their former player.
Cameron Green – INR 17.5 crore
