No suspicious 'news website' included in sponsors of New Zealand series

During the past few years, some suspicious sponsors have been involved with Pakistan cricket. Although seemingly news websites, some of them were revealed to be linked with betting companies and were working under a different name.

After initially sponsoring bilateral series, some of these companies were also seen as sponsors in the eighth edition of PSL. Some players also protested against this practice. Mohammad Rizwan had concealed the logo of Multan Sultans' sponsor during the playoffs of PSL 8.

According to sources, the authorities think that surrogate sponsorship is giving a wrong impression; therefore, the marketing department and the company holding legal rights have been advised to stay away from such companies.

'DafaNews' is not included in the sponsors of the New Zealand series. In other countries, the company named 'Dafabet' sponsors cricket under the same logo as ‘DafaNews’.

The title sponsor of the upcoming series against Kiwis is a bank, and no surrogate 'news website' is included in the sponsors list till now. Currently, it is not clear whether the board's decision is only for this series or whether they would continue with this practice in future as well.