Kohli, Dhoni, Rohit undergo a massive financial blow; Indian cricket players had to lose 150 to 200 crosses after the ban on online games
The players of the India national cricket team, including the pillars Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, should undergo a massive financial blow after the ban on real online games.
Fantastic sports companies closing their real money games, Indian cricket players should lose between 150 and 200 crores INR per year from these dismissed contracts, according to a Cricbuzz report.
The Indian government has recently adopted the promotion and regulation of the online game bills, 2025, which prohibits all forms of online money games, including fantastic sports platforms.
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The new law was adopted in the two chambers of Parliament and received a presidential consent in August 2025. This new bill prohibits users from participating in all online games where money is tabled pending potential gains, and all platforms violating these rules could face serious sanctions, in particular up to three years in prison and fines up to 1 crore.
As this law entered into force, the platforms of gaming money as Dream11 were forced to close their paid competitions. Dream11, which was estimated at around $ 8 billion USD, also withdrew as a title sponsor of the Indian Cricket team, ending their three -year sponsorship agreement of 358 years of 358 years.
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ms Dhoni and other Indian stars are under solid blow
Fantastic sports companies and online games like Dream 11, My11 Circle, MPL and Winzo had sponsored many Indian cricket players and spent strongly in advertising and downstream.
Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Kl Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya Wandya were Dream11, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gauikwad, Ruturaj Gaïkwad, Rinku Sinku, Richuvad made the circle of my 111.
Virat Kohli was with MPL, and Mrs. Dhoni had an agreement with Winzo. However, with the new prohibition imposed, cricket players will be financially struck and will lose their sponsorship transactions.
Kohli had a contract worth 10 to 12 INR per year, while Rohit Sharma and Mrs. Dhoni had signed inr 6-7 bruising contracts. The least popular cricket players had offers of approximately 1 INR crore, and collectively, Indian cricket players should lose between 150 and 200 INR crores per year.
Renowned game players, however, have a diverse portfolio and will not be as assigned as some not so popular cricket players who were counting strongly on fantastic platforms as sponsors.
The Premier Indian League (IPL) has also been affected because it will lose my circle11 as an associated sponsor, which contributed to 125 roots of rupees per year.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have been associated with online gaming platforms, and they will lose between 10-20 INR per year.
Meanwhile, industry experts said the advertising industry would lose nearly 8,000 to 10,000 INR crores per year after government action.
“In terms of overall advertising expenditure, these playing companies contribute around 7 to 8% of the market. Almost 80% of it will disappear, because it is a great impact. Capital, as quoted by Cricbuzz.
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