NEW YORK: India cricket skipper Virat Kohli is among the world's highest-paid athletes, according to a Forbes.

Kohli is the only sportsperson from India who featured in the list and ranked 83rd with earnings of USD 24 million.

It is noted that the 'World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2018' compilation is an all-male event as no women being featured in the list.

The 29 year old Kohali, is not just cricket-crazy in India's biggest name but is also one of the most popular athletes in the global level, "boasting more Twitter followers (25 million-plus) than all but three active sports stars", Forbes said as quoted by ANI

It is noted that in the 'World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2018' list the 41-year-old Mayweather, with USD 285 million earnings topped.

As this year the Indian national cricket board 'The Board of Control for Cricket in India' named Virat Kohli as one of just five players to be given the newly-created A+ contracts, so he has become an annual retainer of more than USD 1 million, it said.

Others who belong sport field on the list are American basketball player LeBron James (6), Tennis star Roger Federer (7), golfer Tiger Woods (16), tennis player Rafael Nadal (20) and golfer Rory McIlroy (26).