Indian Cricketers Who Earn Huge Through Endorsements

BANGALORE: Today, sports has become extremely popular than ever before, hence we find a number of young people deciding to have a career in sports with a desire to become famous sports professionals and in turn to earn lots of money. Cricket is considered more like a religion and cricketers are treated as Gods in India. Here, they get match fees and they also sign rewarding endorsement contracts to promote various products. In reality, when compared to their earnings they earn more through endorsing branded products.

Let’s have a look at the cricketers who earn heavily through endorsements:

1. Mahender Singh Dhoni: When we are talking about Indian cricketers, how can we miss our captain, who is none other than Mahender Singh Dhoni. He is the highest paid cricketer of the Indian cricket team. By far he is the most successful as an Indian Captain. He has won almost all the big events in cricket including the World cup title. Along with being successful, Dhoni is now the brand ambassador for many brands like Pepsi, Aircel, Reebok, Exide, Lays, TVS, Gulf oil, Royal stag, Amity University and Boost. He makes almost $25 million by endorsing all these brands. Apart from these brands, recently he had signed a deal with a Delhi based sports management firm called Rhiti sports for 200 Crore.