Online gaming act falls on cricket stars, big brand deal can be taken away

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|03-09-2025

Overview:

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, the biggest contract of real-mani game apps, are with apps. His endorsement earned. In the second list, Jaspreet Bumrah, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya are named. Everyone’s contract is from a company with different apps.

Delhi: It is not that the impact of the online gaming act is coming only on the team sponsorship and similar promotion contract. Cricketers too, personally, have not been able to escape the impact from this act. All this is happening that even the loss has not been properly guessed. The business of promoting fantasy gaming is now closed.

Some cricketers do not only have contracts to promote fantasy gaming, but their contracts were with high and easy conditions. Dream 11 with a value of $ 800 million and some other company associated with cricket sponsorship, then to take advantage of the personal appeal of the cricketers, they also gave them personal contracts. In this list, many top players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant and Jaspreet Bumrah are also named, while new players like Mohammad Siraj Siraj and Washington Sundar, who are now making their mark in the world of brand endorsement, are now making their mark.

The report is that till now these gaming companies have not given notice to break the contract of individual brand ambassador with any Indian cricketer, but it is not hidden that the terms of these contracts are being investigated legally so that any legal bottlenecks are avoided, just as the contract of BCCI broke into the middle of the BCCI.

The biggest contract of real-meri game apps is with Team India veteran Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. His endorsement earned. In the second list, Jaspreet Bumrah, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya are named. Everyone’s contract is from a company with different apps.

  • With Dream 11: Rohit Sharma, Jaspreet Bumrah, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Mohammad Siraj, Washington Sundar and Krunal Pandya.
  • MPL: Virat Kohli.
  • Winzo: MS Dhoni.
  • Mai 11 Circle: Shubman Gill, Mohammad Siraj, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rinku Singh and Sourav Ganguly.

The largest contract of these is Virat Kohli and is charging a fee of Rs 10-12 crore annually from MPL. Dhoni and Rohit are taking about 6-7 crores. In comparison, young and less popular players contradictured around Rs 1 crore from real-mani gaming apps. Overall, the price of these contracts of Indian cricketers is estimated at Rs 150-200 crore, that is, direct loss. If these contracts are about 5-10 percent of the total annual promotion income for top players like Kohli and Rohit, then for players like Siraj and Washington Sundar, it caused a big loss.

The contract of Dream 11 is near Siraj and beautiful. Both have a total of three brand promotion contracts, which includes the contract of this real-mani gaming app. This means that their endorsement earnings went directly to 33 percent. The names of some players are only earning the endorsement of these apps and they have come in full loss. In this way, the star players of India are getting a big shock.