{"id":11468,"date":"2020-11-03T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T22:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:21:32","slug":"cricket-stars-warned-for-endorsing-gaming-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cricket-stars-warned-for-endorsing-gaming-apps","title":{"rendered":"Cricket stars warned for endorsing gaming apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Betting on fantasy sports has been a grey area in Indian legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-\u00a0The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in India has sent notices to two IPL cricket captains on their endorsement of gaming apps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sourav Ganguly,\u00a0who endorses an app called My11Circle,\u00a0and Virat Kohli received warnings about supporting fantasy gaming\u00a0mobile\u00a0apps on which financial transactions are made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outlook India reported that High Court has also issued warnings to several actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notices came as the\u00a0T20 cricket league championship comes to an end. There have been several reports of suicides related to lost bets and gambling problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betting on fantasy sports has been a grey area in Indian legislation. The <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-court-pushes-for-online-gaming-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">Madras Court recently took a position<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on the issue recently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outlook India says at least 60 per cent of commercials on live TV during the sports season is taken by fantasy cricket apps.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title sponsor of IPL 2020\u00a0is\u00a0the fantasy sports company, Dream11.\u00a0 It is endorsed by several Indian stars, including Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and\u00a0Jasprit\u00a0Bumrah.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betting on fantasy sports has been a grey area in Indian legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":11470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16334,155],"tags":[2623,58,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}