Cricket Australia paid to promote affiliate of controversial gambling company during Boxing Day Test

Exclusive: Sporting body featured 1xBat logo in broadcast despite receiving warnings from Pakistan the week before

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Cricket Australia was paid to promote the “surrogate” of a controversial offshore gambling company that is banned by several nations and accused of accepting bets on children’s sport, cockfights and promoting topless casinos.

The sporting body immediately removed the 1xBat logo from its international broadcast of the Boxing Day test match once it confirmed the brand was an affiliate of the controversial gambling company, 1xBet, and the subject of an official warning from the Pakistan government.

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