Virat Kohli's 2025 Salary Breakdown: BCCI and IPL Earnings Revealed

Virat Kohli, one of the most renowned batters of the modern period, has a net worth of $127 million, or Rs 1050 crores. He is one of the wealthiest cricketers, not just in India but across the globe. His financial success has increased as a result of his outstanding on-field performance, as well as lucrative sponsorship deals and personal branding. 

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As Kohli enters the corporate and philanthropic spheres, his brand worth keeps increasing. He has multiple sources of income which include his contract with the BCCI, match fees for every international match he plays for every format, IPL fees, various brand endorsements, business investments and so on. Here, we focus mainly on the money he generates from the contract with the BCCI and his IPL fees.

Kohli finds himself in Grade A+, only one of the four players in the list of BCCI Central Contract list while the other three are Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja. He earns a whopping Rs 7 crores from his contract in addition to match fees of Rs 15 lakhs for every Test Match and Rs 6 lakhs for every One Day Internationals match he plays. 

With the BCCI announcing that every player who plays for a minimum of 70% of Test Matches of the year that India has been scheduled to play, this amount of Rs 15 lakhs per game transforms into Rs 45 lakhs per game, which can very well be the possibility for him.

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He has been a marquee player for his IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore ever since the inception of the tournament. Being the key player of the team over the years, he has been growing perpetually in his game value as well as financial value. 

Even after being in the later end of his career, he was retained for a whopping Rs 21 crores, the joint-second highest in the history of the tournament only behind Heinrich Klaasen who has been retained for a record Rs 23 crores. 

When combined with earnings from the BCCI contract and the IPL salary, he is going to receive a total of Rs 30 crores, clearly making him one of the highest-earning cricketers in the world. This earning does not include the match fees and endorsements he would be having this year which when added makes him one of the wealthiest active athlete across the globe.

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Virat Kohli’s earnings from BCCI and IPL in 2025:

BCCI: 7 Crores

IPL: 21 Crores

Match fee per Test: 45 Lakhs

Match fee per ODI: 6 Lakhs

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