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No ads for young Turks? Why brands don't sign Prithvi Shaw or Shubman Gill?

Nearly half of the World Cup squad has been picked up by IPL franchises, and not all went for the base price

What's stopping popular brands from signing Prithvi Shaw or Shubman Gill?
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Urvi Malvania
Youth, cricket and triumph on the field—that is a combination any brand that is looking to dominate the Indian consumer mindspace would find hard to resist. And yet the Indian Under-19 (U-19) cricket team that has just won the World Cup playing against Australia at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand has met with a rather tepid response from companies otherwise eager to jump on to the cricket bandwagon.

The short life of most of the U-19 players in first-class cricket and their low rate of success (with just a handful of exceptions) could be keeping big