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‘Isse acha sponsor rakhte hi nahi’ – Fans react as Team India announce new title sponsor ahead of ODI World Cup 2023
Fantasy gaming platform Dream 11 has replaced Byju’s as the new title sponsor for the Indian Cricket team after winning the lead sponsors’ rights for INR 358 crore. Reportedly, Dream 11 emerged as the sole serious contender in the race with two other companies also showing interest by picking up the tender document.
Byju’s had an optional agreement with the Indian Cricket Board until November but decided to end it in March. Since then, India were looking for a jersey sponsor. Byju’s sponsored Team Indian for almost three and a half years. According to journalist K Shriniwas Rao, Dream11 will replace Byju’s logo in the middle of the Indian team’s jersey for the next four years.
During that time, the Indian team wore new training and match jerseys provided by Adidas, as reported earlier in February. Under the previous deal with Byju’s, the Cricket Board earned round Rs 5.5 crore for each bilateral match and Rs 1.7 crore for an International game due to logo placement.
India to don new jerseys in the upcoming tour to West Indies
Notably, team India will don jerseys with new kit and title sponsors in the upcoming tour to West Indies starting on July 12th. India are scheduled to play two Tests, three ODIs and five T20Is against the Caribbean side. However, the squads have already been announced for the Test and ODI series while the squad for the T20I series is yet to be announced.
Indian squads against West Indies.
ODI – Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Surya Kumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammed Siraj, Umran Malik, Mukesh Kumar.
Tests – Rohit Sharma (Capt), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane (VC), KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Navdeep Saini.
— Kartik (@MetaBarca) June 30, 2023
— Jim Is Here To Take Care of Him (@RoastHimJim) June 30, 2023
— Jim Is Here To Take Care of Him (@RoastHimJim) June 30, 2023
Dream 11 India 😢
At least Byjus was better than this— khushanshu (@no1khush) June 30, 2023
Will the whole Dream11 be written or only the logo?
— MahiEra (@themahiera) June 30, 2023
So the national team jersey will now have a gambling app as it's sponsor! 🤦
— NK (@nirmal_indian) June 30, 2023
Virat tha to "MPL",
ab Rohit hai to "Dream11"…… pic.twitter.com/pdzEvte3ow— M.Sriv@s (@MSriv14) June 30, 2023
From an Educational institute to a Betting app. Nice glow up🤝
— ItaChi (@CricAni7) June 30, 2023
This reflects Today's India. We are going into Gambling from Education. Means Money matters, not knowledge.
— Barkha Joshi (@bindasbarkha) June 30, 2023
So both the Brand Rohit endorse is not sponsor of Team India. Now just win the trophy
— Varad Tamhankar (@Varad_Tamhankar) June 30, 2023
