{"id":9142,"date":"2025-09-16T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=637702"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:37:57","slug":"will-apollo-tyres-team-india-deal-create-a-conflict-for-shubman-gill-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/will-apollo-tyres-team-india-deal-create-a-conflict-for-shubman-gill-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Apollo Tyres\u2019 Team India deal create a conflict for Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"426\">With Apollo Tyres bagging the <strong data-start=\"227\" data-end=\"271\">Team India jersey sponsorship until 2027<\/strong> at a record <strong data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"308\">\u20b94.5 crore per match<\/strong>, questions are now being raised over a potential conflict of interest for some of India\u2019s biggest cricketing stars.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"870\">The issue stems from the fact that <strong data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"510\">Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli<\/strong> are all individually sponsored by <strong data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"566\">rival tyre brands<\/strong> \u2014 MRF and CEAT. Kohli has long been associated with <strong data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"626\">MRF<\/strong>, with the iconic bat sticker being one of the most visible sponsorships in cricket. Rohit Sharma also endorses <strong data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"746\">CEAT<\/strong>, while Shubman Gill recently signed up with the same brand, continuing the long-standing MRF presence in Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"1126\">Now, with <strong data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"937\">Apollo Tyres\u2019 logo set to appear on India\u2019s jerseys<\/strong>, the overlap creates a curious branding clash. While on the field, the players will wear the Indian jersey with Apollo prominently displayed, their bats will still carry the rival logos.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1447\">Experts believe this won\u2019t breach any rules as personal endorsements and team sponsorships operate in separate silos. However, it does raise an interesting dynamic: India\u2019s top three batters will be simultaneously promoting Apollo\u2019s competitors through their bats, even as they carry Apollo on their national jerseys.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1761\">This isn\u2019t the first time Indian cricket has faced such brand crossovers. In the past, kit sponsors and personal sponsors have often been rivals, but with tyres being such a visible category \u2014 on both jerseys and bats \u2014 the <strong data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1707\">Apollo vs MRF vs CEAT face-off<\/strong> could spark plenty of chatter in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1956\">For Apollo Tyres, though, the deal ensures their visibility across all Indian matches, making the brand a constant fixture in global cricket broadcasts, regardless of individual bat stickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Apollo Tyres bagging the Team India jersey sponsorship until 2027 at a record \u20b94.5 crore per match, questions are\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":26204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}