Walton, a Bangladeshi multinational brand, has become sponsor for the home series of Bangladesh national cricket team for next two years. During  this period, Tigers have six home series against various teams for which Walton signed deals for powered-by sponsorship rights.

Walton signed the agreement yesterday with K-Sports, a sports marketing company, at the later office in city’s Gulshan.

K-Sports Chief Executive Officer Fahad M A Karim and Walton’s Deputy Executive Director Uday Hakim signed the agreement for their respective organizations. K-Sports Director Ashfaq Ahmad, Operative Director of Walton Firoj Alam, First Senior Deputy Director Milton Ahmed and Chief Operating Officer of K-Sports Mahbubur Rashid were among others present at the signing ceremony. According to the agreement, in ground branding, the logo and product information of Walton will be displayed at perimeter boards, 3D bowling pitch matte on both sides of wicket, mid wall board, boundary rope, site screen, presentation backdrop, roman banner etc.

 Walton is also a regular sponsor in international cricket.

Note that K-Sports has purchased in-stadia or grounds rights from Bangladesh Cricket Board for the next two years. The contract will expire from September 1 to 31 August of 2020. In this time, Bangladesh have six home series against Zimbabwe, West Indies, Afghanistan and Australia. The first series will start with Zimbabwe on Sunday followed by West Indies who will play next month. Afghanistan will arrive in September next year. Australia are scheduled to play two series, one in February and another in March next year. However, the two series might merge into one.  Zimbabwe will come again in March 2020 to play one Test and five T20I matches.