PepsiCo Ropes In Shafali Verma As Brand Ambassador

The flamboyant batter of the Indian Women’s Cricket Team Shafali Verma signs a deal for PepsiCo as their new brand ambassador. As she is just 16-year-56-old and at the beginning of her illustrious career, Pepsi offered her an inexpensive deal, which was accepted gleefully by Shafali. She has grabbed regular headlines in the recent past for her exceptional work on the field in the ongoing ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

The explosive batter Shafali has been knocking the ball out of the park with ease – to put India on top of the game right from the start.

The deal is inexpensive:

A PepsiCo insider confirmed the development to Economic Times saying that Shafali had been signed on for a year. The source revealed that the company will renew the contract if Shafali achieves greater heights in her next phase.

“The deal is inexpensive since Verma has just begun her career. If she continues to perform, PepsiCo will look at renewing it and taking it forward,” he said.

Shafali is the latest to enter the field, where her seniors Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana have been ruling the roost.

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However, comparing to men cricketers, the charge of women cricketers is considerably less. She has scored 161 runs in four matches so far at a strike-rate of 161.00.

One can gauge her impact from the fact that the next best batting figures in the team belong to Jemimah Rodrigues, with 85 runs in four matches.

Overall, Shafali sits fourth on the impressive top run-getters list behind England’s Nathalie Sciver (202), Heather Knight (193) and Australia’s Beth Mooney (181), but is ahead of all competition on strike-rate.