Endorsement curbs on domestic players too

Days after cracking the whip on endorsements of Indian players, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today said even domestic players would 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 7, had also directed the players to submit a copy of their existing contracts with sponsors to the BCCI. "There's a strong feeling the agents are exploiting some of these young cricketers and we want to prevent this from happening," he explained.