Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore have signed an INR 75 crore cope with Qatar Airways, who can be their title sponsor for the subsequent three years. In keeping with reviews, it is the second-largest deal within the historical past of IPL sponsorships.
Qatar Airways lately roped in Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone as their international model ambassador and can now change one of many largest NBFC’s in India, Muthoot FinCorp, as the principle sponsor of the third hottest franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL). As per the deal, the emblem of Qatar Airways can be seen on the entrance facet of RCB’s jersey.
“The deal has been signed, and the announcement can be made in a few weeks. It is value ₹75 crore for 3 years, the largest deal for RCB ever,” an individual was quoted as saying by Mint on the situation of anonymity.
In 2022, essentially the most profitable franchise of the event, five-time champions Mumbai Indians (MI), signed the same three-year deal value over INR 90 crore with fintech firm Slice. Previous to the Slice deal, the second most profitable franchise of IPL, Chennai Tremendous Kings(CSK) which has 4 titles to their title signed an INR 70 crore-plus cope with TVS Group’s Eurogrip for 3 years.
Regardless of not having the ability to win a single IPL trophy within the 15-year-long historical past of the event, RCB is being praised for its model valuation and has an enormous fan base. In keeping with consultants, “that is additionally the facility of Model Virat on show to an excellent diploma”.
IPL 2023 to start on March 31
The IPL season 16 will kick off on March 31 with the defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) going up in opposition to CSK. RCB will begin their marketing campaign in opposition to Mumbai Indians (MI) on April 2 at their dwelling floor M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
On the IPL 2023 public sale, RCB purchased the companies of left-arm seamer Reece Topley for a whopping INR 1.9 crore and added Will Jacks to strengthen their batting for INR 3.2 Crore. In addition they added some native roping expertise within the likes of Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, and Avinash Singh.
