Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has paid virtually £40m for a 49 per cent stake in Hundred franchise Trent Rockets.
Rockets are the seventh crew within the England and Wales Cricket Board’s 100-ball competitors to be offered, with solely Southern Courageous left to be bought.
Nottinghamshire will retain their 51 per cent share of the Rockets, with Boehly’s firm Cain Worldwide buying the marginally smaller stake from the ECB.
The sale of Rockets takes the worth of The Hundred groups to in extra of £800m.
A US-based expertise consortium spent huge on the Lord’s-based London Spirit, paying £145m for 49 per cent, which means the franchise was valued at simply shy of £300m general.
Boelhy had been enthusiastic about shopping for Spirit and fellow London aspect Oval Invincibles however was outbid.
Yorkshire’s complete stake within the Northern Superchargers was purchased by Solar Group – who personal IPL outfit Sunrisers Hyderabad and SA20 crew Sunrisers Jap Cape – for circa £100m.
Proceeds from the 49 per cent of groups offered by the ECB shall be divided between the 18 first-class counties and the MCC, whereas if a number county sells all or a part of their 51 per cent, 10 per cent of that cash will even go to the counties and MCC.
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