Virat Kohli is India's highest earning sports celebrity. He is way ahead of other sports personalities in the latest Forbes list. 

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Kohli, who recently married actor Anushka Sharma, has earned Rs 100.72 crore, putting him in third place in the 100 celebrities list, behind Bollywood actors Salman Khan (Rs 232.83 crore) and Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 170.5 crore). 

In term of Sports personalities, Sachin Tendulkar (Rs 82.50 crore) is second while former India captain MS Dhoni (Rs 63.77 crore) is third.    

PV Sindhu, fourth in sports personalities list and 13th overall, is the highest money gainer (in percentage terms) with her brand rising after the 2016 Olympic silver medal. It has impacted her earnings which have increased nearly 17 times.

R Ashwin (Rs 34.67 crore) rounds off the top five crickets in the list. Other non-cricketers in the list are: Saina Nehwal (Rs 31 crore), golfer Anirban Lahiri (Rs 12.44 crore), Kidambi Srikanth (Rs 6.13 crore), Sania Mirza (Rs 2.80 crore) and Sunil Chhetri, at 100th, on Rs 2.30 crore.In total, 21 sports personalities make the top-100.

Here is the list for all the sports persons (earning in crores):

1  Virat Kohli Rs 100.72 

2  Sachin Tendulkar Rs 82.50 

3  MS Dhoni Rs 63.77 

4  PV Sindhu Rs 57.25 

5  R Ashwin  Rs 34.67 

6 Ravindra Jadeja Rs 34.58 

7 Saina Nehwal Rs 31.00 

8 Rohit Sharma Rs 30.82 

9 Shikhar Dhawan Rs 15.94 

10 Anirban Lahiri Rs 12.44 

11 Yuvraj Singh Rs 11.60 

12 K Srikanth  Rs 6.13 

13 Ajinkya Rahane  Rs 5.56 

14 C Pujara  Rs 5.48 

15 Murali Vijay Rs 4.20 

16 KL Rahul Rs 4.04 

17 Umesh Yadav Rs 3.94 

18 Hardik Pandya Rs 3.04 

19 Sania Mirza Rs 2.80 

20 Bhuvneshwar Kumar Rs 2.53 

21 Sunil Chhetri Rs 2.30 

The list is calculated on estimates of entertainment-related earnings of celebrities.