According to Inside Sports,Mastercard will be the new TITLE Sponsor for the Indian Domestic and International Cricket at Home. BCCI has decided to accept PayTM’s request of transferring the title rights to global payments company Mastercard.
Mastercard will satrt there tenure in September when Australia will travel to India for Three Match T20I series and then South Africa will travel to India for six white ball Games.
Schedule of Australia and South Africa Tour of India:
IND vs AUS:
1st T20 – Sep 20 (Mohali)
2nd T20 – Sep 23 (Nagpur)
3rd T20 – Sep 25 (Hyderabad)
IND vs SA:
1st T20 – Sep 28 (Trivandrum)
2nd T20 – Oct 1 (Guwahati)
3rd T20 – Oct 3 (Indore)
1st ODI – Oct 6 (Ranchi)
2nd ODI – Oct 9 (Lucknow)
3rd ODI – Oct 11 (Delhi)
Mastercard has been re-assigned at same Price of 3.8cr per Match as Paytm Request to BCCI about this.
BCCI has confirmed to Inside Sport that Paytm Company has Informed BCCI on 5th July that they are not interested in continuing as Title Sponsor of Indian Cricket.
“Yes, they had sent in a request for the trasfer of the rights. It is correct there is a provision for assignment of Rights to a third party. Contracts with the new sponsor will be completed in two weeks time. They will continue as partner till 2023”, confirmed the BCCI source to InsideSport.
