The Hundred traders: Tom Brady, Chelsea’s Todd Boehly, IPL crew house owners and massive companies all safe stakes | Cricket Information

Sports activities crew house owners and billionaire businessmen are among the many high-profile traders who’ve secured stakes in The Hundred forward of the 2025 season.

The England and Wales Cricket Board introduced final summer season that it was opening a course of to safe personal funding forward of the 2025 version, which is stay on Sky Sports activities in August.

The eight hosts of the groups got a 51 per cent stake, which they may promote – in full or partly – or maintain, whereas the remaining 49 per cent in both sides have been offered by the ECB, with the proceeds distributed between the 18 first-class counties and the MCC.

The operating tally of valuations for the eight Hundred groups stands within the area of £950m, however who owns who?

This is a team-by-team have a look at who has invested into The Hundred forward of the brand new season…

Birmingham Phoenix

Birmingham Metropolis house owners Knighthead – for whom NFL legend Tom Brady acts as a minority investor – succeeded in a £40m deal for the Edgbaston-based Phoenix facet.

Warwickshire CEO Stuart Cain stated: “All through the method Knighthead demonstrated a powerful monetary dedication and deep understanding of what it takes to raise high-performance sport.

“They’ve far-reaching world affect that may assist us promote Birmingham Phoenix to cricket and sport followers world wide and a wealth of sports activities funding expertise.

“We might stated at the beginning of this course of that we needed an investor dedicated to put money into the area and be with us for the long run, to make an actual distinction. I imagine we have discovered that in Knighthead.”

London Spirit

An 11-strong consortium of tech billionaires has agreed to purchase a 49 per cent stake in Spirit, who play at Lord’s.

Cricket Investor Holdings Restricted, led by US cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks chairman and chief govt Nikesh Arora, are set to pay £145m, which might worth Spirit at round £300m.

Sundar Pichai, the chief govt of Google, and Satya Nadella, the chief govt of Microsoft, are a part of the consortium.

This bid is reported to have crushed off competitors from Manchester United co-chair Avram Glazer’s Lancer Capital and a gaggle affiliated to Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly.

Manchester Originals

The RPSG Group, house owners of Indian Premier League facet Lucknow Tremendous Giants, have been the profitable bidders in the course of the sale of Originals, who play their house video games at Emirates Outdated Trafford.

Experiences recommend the successful bid values the Originals at over £100m, with the RPSG Group outlasting different events after initially being taken with securing Spirit.

A press release from Lancashire stated: “We have now been very targeted on securing an amazing associate – ideally from the IPL
– and RPSG has been our most well-liked bidder for a while.

“We’re delighted by the result and stay up for working collectively to create an thrilling future. Collectively, we’ve a shared ambition to create a really particular cricket crew for the individuals of Manchester and the broader North West area.”

Northern Superchargers

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Solar Group are one other set of IPL house owners to put money into The Hundred after shopping for Yorkshire’s total stake within the Headingley-based Superchargers for round £100m.

Sunrisers Hyderabad are two-time IPL champions, in 2009 and 2016, whereas the Solar Group’s Sunrisers Jap Cape franchise has gained the primary two editions of the SA20 in South Africa.

The large monetary windfall may permit Yorkshire to repay their £15m debt to the Graves household in a single go.

Oval Invincibles

Reliance Industries Restricted, who personal Mumbai Indians within the IPL, are stated to have seen off competitors from a consortium involving executives from Google, Microsoft and Adobe, as nicely personal fairness group CVC.

The value that the Ambani household – the richest household in India – agreed to pay for the ECB stake was unclear, though sources stated it was understood to have valued 100 per cent of Invincibles at roughly £125m.

Southern Courageous

Southern Courageous are the second facet to be totally owned by IPL-backed funding, with the GMR Group – as anticipated – successful the bid to safe the 49 per cent stake.

The Delhi Capitals co-owners have been already majority shareholders in Hampshire, the primary County Championship membership to be owned by an abroad franchise.

It is understood that the GMR Group have secured the remaining stake for just below £48m, valuing the crew at round £98m.

Trent Rockets

After unsuccessfully bidding for Spirit, Chelsea co-owner Boehly bought a 49 per cent stake in Rockets as his firm Cain Worldwide, which he arrange with British businessman Jonathan Goldstein, forked out near £40m for the Midlands outfit.

The acquisition of Rockets provides to the American’s sporting portfolio with Boehly additionally co-owner of French soccer membership Strasbourg, Main League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers and the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.

Welsh Hearth

The house owners of Main League Cricket franchise Washington Freedom, backed by Indian-American IT entrepreneur Sanjay Govil, agreed to purchase a 49 per cent holding in Cardiff-based Hearth for round £65m.

Freedom’s house owners beat off curiosity from, amongst others, Capri Worldwide, which owns UP Warriorz within the Girls’s Premier League.

Wrexham Soccer Membership’s house owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny have been amongst these taken with a stake however didn’t enter the formal bidding course of.

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