Domestic cricketers too under BCCI scanner for endorsements

MUMBAI: Days after cracking the whip on endorsements of Indian players, BCCI on Monday said that even domestic players will have to get their sponsorship contracts cleared by the BCCI.

"We will ask all the units affiliated to the BCCI to find out how many of their players, if any, are having endorsement deals with sponsors and copies of these would have to be sent to us," a Board source said.

"Copies of any future sponsorship deals will also have to be sent to us," he said.

The all-powerful Working Committee of the Board, while deciding to put a cap on players' endorsements at its meeting here on April seven, had also directed the players to submit a copy of their existing contracts with sponsors to the BCCI.

"We are not against players earning money through these deals but there's a strong feeling that the agents are exploiting some of these young cricketers and we want to prevent this from happening," he explained.

Catch them young, seems to be the idea, with players in domestic cricket - perceived as potential India material -being induced to sign a contract that the agents feel will bear fruit multi-fold when the cricketers go on to play for the country, according to the source.