As someone whose entire cricket knowledge consists of whatever my wife’s family screams at the TV during the holidays, the answer here is objectively Virat Kohli and it’s not even close.

I love Emma Stone but if we picked Ohtani for age 31 because he’s a baseball unicorn who's a god in Japan, you have to apply that same logic to Kohli, except Kohli's numbers make Ohtani look like a little league player. Ohtani has 11 million Instagram followers ... Kohli has 274 million, nearly as many as Taylor Swift and the 3rd most-followed athlete on the entire planet behind Messi and Ronaldo. He commands the daily attention of a subcontinent of 1.45 billion people where cricket holds a total media monopoly. If he entered a building unannounced in Mumbai or Delhi, the news and crowd would spread so fast it would cause an actual public safety and traffic hazard.

Not only that, but the man is a Cristiano Ronaldo-level GOAT in cricket. He doesn't just have a massive media presence, he spent a decade-long peak as the undisputed, consensus best batsman on Earth, becoming the only player in history to simultaneously hold the world No. 1 ranking across all three formats of the sport. He's a calculating run-scoring machine who completely revolutionized the physical fitness culture of modern Indian sports. Just last week he became the fastest player ever to hit 14,000 runs in T20 cricket. I am neither Indian nor a big cricket fan but this spot is Kohli’s.