new delhi sports company spartan international has allegedly defaulted on payments worth rs 20 crore to m s dhoni which were due to indias odi and t20 captain according to a sponsorship deal between the twosources said the australiabased spartan founded by kunal sharma had signed dhoni in december 2013 for a threeyear endorsement deal worth rs 12 crore per yearthe company allegedly made regular payments for the first few months after which the money slowed to a trickle spartan allegedly released small tokens cheques worth rs 25 lakh to rs 30 lakh and even offered a business proposal to brand dhoni in a latenight email response to toi sharma wrote its business as usual with msd there are no issuessachin tendulkar recently entered into a commercial arrangement with spartan as an investor and a member on its advisory board despite repeated reminders from rhiti sports which manages dhoni spartan has not cleared its dues if you add up the money till the end of this year the amount would be close to rs 30 crore a source said on thursday the reply to the email sent to sharmas official id simply said will not have any access to my emails until i return to the office on july 15 calls and messages went unansweredspartans representatives in india also refused to make any commentthe spartan cricket club an arm of spartan international claims to have top stars including chris gayle dhoni and eoin morgan as its ambassadorsit is learnt that rhiti sports is now mulling legal action against spartan and may also lodge a complaint with the indian cricket board bcci and the international cricket council regarding the default on paymentseverything is not smooth and hopefully the matter will be resolved soon arun pandey boss of rhiti sports was quoted as saying by pti