Kohli, Dhoni, Rohit suffer massive financial blow; Indian cricketers set to lose ₹150–200 crore after online gaming ban

Players of the India National Cricket team, including Verat Kohli, Mrs. Donni and Rohit Sharma, are scheduled for a huge financial strike after imposing a ban on realistic games online.

With fictional sports companies closing their real financial games, Indian cricket players are likely to lose between 150-200 rupees annually from these expired contracts, according to a report in Cricbuzz.

The Indian government has recently approved the promotion and organization of the online gaming bill, 2025, which prohibits all forms of gaming online money, including fictional sport platforms.

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The new law was approved in parliament and obtained presidential approval in August 2025. This new law prohibits users participating in any online games where money is deposited with possible gains, and any platforms may face severe penalties, including three years in prison and fines up to 1 balls.

With the start of this law into effect, real money platforms such as DREAM11 were forced to stop their paid competitions. Dream11, which amounted to about 8 billion US dollars, was launched as a sponsor of the Indian cricket team, and ending the career of a shirt of $ 358 for three years.

Firat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Mrs. Donni, and other Indian stars suffer from a huge blow

Fantasy SPORTS and Online Gaming Companies, such as Dream 11, My11 Circle, MPL and Winzo, sponsored many Indian cricket players and greatly eliminated ads and approvals.

Rohit Sharma, Jasbert Pomra, all Rahul, Risahab Pant, Hardic Pandia with Dream 11, Shopman Jill, Mohamed Cerege, Yashsovi Jiswal, Roturaj Gaquadad, Renko Singh, and Manda Manjelili.

Firat Kohli was with MPL, and Mrs. Dhoni had a deal with Winzo. However, with the imposition of the new embargo, cricket players will be hit financially and lose their care deals.

Kohli had a contract worth 10-12 rupees annually annually, while Rohit Sharma and Mrs. Donni signed contracts from 6 to 7 rupees. Cricket players were the least popular deals of about 1 rupees, and the Indian cricket players may lose between 150-200 rupees per year.

However, the dribbling script players have a varied wallet and will not be affected like some of the non -popular cricket players who have relied heavily on imagination platforms like herders.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) was also affected, as it will lose my Circle as a participant sponsor, which was contributing to 125 rupees annually.

Kolkata Knight Rides (KKR), LuckNow Super Giants (LSG) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are associated with online gaming platforms, and will lose between 10 to 20 rupees per year.

Meanwhile, industry experts said that the advertising industry will lose near 8,000-10,000 rupees per year after the government.

“With regard to the total spending of the advertisement, these gaming companies contribute to about 7-8 percent of the market. Nearly 80 percent of that will fade, because real money represents 75-80 percent of the total games market. Therefore, this is its digital impact on approximately 7-8 percent of the total ads, as is the amount of the advertisement, as it is specified, he said. Capital, Cricbuzz also conveyed.

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