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There was already an exciting cricket in England.
Many fought with five test matches with India – Global Cricket Financial Station – ended earlier this week in what is likely to become one of the the greatest set of games that if -they played.
Soon aside. Cricket has many forms. The longest known as the test match and can last up to five days – and still will be potentially ended in the draw. Then there is one day international. Each side gets into a bowl of up to 50 “frames” and one than in six balls. Next, there are twenty 20 or T20, each side receives 20 frames, or 120 goals.
And finally there are hundreds, the shortest of all that are the kids governing other ECB).
Currently, competition is a big business, and earlier this year has attracted record amounts of investment – mainly from the US and India – to professional cricket in this country. More about this in a moment.
One hundred, which started on Tuesday and played for five weeks during the Summer School Summer, was born in high political circumstances.
He was conceived on a cricket board allegedly to attract new, young fans, embarrassed by longer forms of the game. In practice, it was also designed to remove power in 18 constituencies, which were traditionally the basis of professional cricket in England and Wales.
Cricket council, before hundreds, did not have its own assets, except for television rights – and accompanying commercial capabilities – for men’s and women’s international teams, and most of this income returned to the county. It was worried that when a franchise cricket flew in countries such as India and Australia for potential damage to the international cricket, the cost of these TV rights could fall. Hence the creation of your own tournament.
Gus Atkinson from England for the fifth day of the test match between England and India at Kia Oval 4 August 2025 in London, England.
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Commons in the County Sot got a piece of money to calm any objections. These problems were well-founded and, to a certain extent, were made by the events: the tournament, which was held in the heat of the summer, pushed traditional matches on the margin of the season, because many of the best players of the county are good at it.
This marginalization has harmed the county championship, the most durable competition of sports and home competitions, including the T20 BLAST, the biggest monetary back for the English and Welsh district in the last couple of decades.
Hundreds began difficult. The first project for the competition was held in October 2019, a few months before hitting COVID, paying the planned first season.
When hundreds began in 2021 in 2021, the Cricket Council considered it an instant success: the grounds were packed, television audiences were high, and clips were viewed on social media almost 35 million times.
Some of this were not surprised.
Mike Atherton, A Former England Captain and Arguble Now The Sport’s Mostinguished Writer and Broadcast, Wrote in the Times at the end of the first season: “Cricket is a great game. Prices, give it the oxygen of free-to-air tv allied to the music and expertise of an established cricket Broadcaster, create a conditioned touchnament with one match a night so that Pour all your love, attention and marketing costs, people of all ages, denominations, gender, origin and abilities will come. “
Since then, one hundred continued to bloom, not least financially. This was confirmed when, in February this year, eight teams of hundreds were estimated at just over 975 million pounds ($ 1.3 billion) after three tourists, which aroused interest from all over the world.
The main thing is that by bringing £ 520 million that can be downloaded back to sports, the English and Wales board on cricket has retained a control share in the competition.
It was a special triumph for the chairman of Richard Thompson, who recently showed that on the second day of his work in 2022 he received an offer from a private BridgePoint to buy the whole tournament for £ 350.
Some amounts that pay for the team rates are unusual.
The highest lateral in Silicon Valley will pay £ 145 million for 49% of the London spirit, a franchise based on Lord, a landmark cricket, known as the Cricket House.
Cricket Investor Holdings aimed at Nikesh Arara, CEO of the Cybersecurity Giant Palo Networks and is supported, among others, CEO Alphabet Sundar Pichai, CEO Microsoft Satya Nadella and Silver Lake, American Investment Guide.
But huge sums were also made in some other teams. Another London franchise “oval non -proper” was estimated at £ 125 million after 49% was sold for Rise Worldwide, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries owned by India’s richest family, Ambanis. They also possess the Mumbai Indian team in the Indian Prime Minister (IPL), as well as its nursing teams, Michigan Kapetown, Mi -Emirate and Mi -nu York.
Meanwhile, Manchester originals were estimated at £ 116 million after 70% of the stock was purchased by RPSG, the Indian conglomerate, which is controlled by the billionaire Sanjiva Goenko, who also owns the LuckNow Super Giants IPL team.
And Trent Rockets Nototinghar was estimated at £ 79 million after 49% of the shares were purchased by Cain International, an investment company owned by Jonatan Goldstein and Toda pain, the US co -owner of the Chelsea Football Club.
“House” and “Home”
The arrival of all this money in the English cricket, unexpectedly, given the passion caused by the sports and its experienced fan base, created fresh problems.
The first is that the money will be served, as it happened in the English rugby -Sales, which received a huge monetary injection when in 2013 the private capital company CVC Capital Partners acquired 27% of the shares in the main internal sports competition. Three clubs – wasps, Wustern warriors and Irish London – then passed the bust, and several others became on the border.
Another problem related to the first one is whether the English game is even more divided between “Hausses” and “Hatchki”. Last month, the entrance report on Cricket Financing Leonard Kurtis showed that 44% of the total revenue of all 18 districts of the first class in 2023 accounted for 44% of the total income of all 18 districts in the three largest districts. All three, as the hosts, are reliable team owners. The three poorest counties – Letershire, Derbishire and Northamptroshire – made up only 5.6% between them.
Rob Wilson, co -author of the report, stated that a number of counties were too dependent on the financing of the Cricket Council in England and Wales, but added that a hundred, potentially, a major fracture.
“The reality is that the ECB income structure allows the counties to exist in the formats they are in. And it will be worrying with a hundred money,” he said The Guardian.
“The important thing is that the ECB looks after these money and how they distribute them so that the clubs do not waste it.”
The second concern with hundreds, not least for the purists, is that he and other cricket franchises continue to break away from the quality and regularity of international devices. There were already clashes: for example, last year England recalled a number of players with IPL before the T20 World Cup. England refrained from choosing one of these players, Jacob Bethel, in May this year at a test match against Zimbabwe so he can continue to play IPL.
Thus, there is already a club against the country that has wore – similar to the one that has been running professional football for years – and given unusual rewards, especially in IPL, players are likely to choose cricket over time.
This has already been noticed worldwide in less financially endowed countries. South African Quinton de Coc and Henry Klatsen and Trinidad Nicholas Paradan, the most curly players of the T20 format are one of those who leaned out of international cricket before they would have focused on the cricket of the franchise.
Franchise cricket is already where most of the revenue from TVs for the rest of the world. Only the great three Global Sport India, Australia and England-Play Test Series, which lasted more than three matches and then only against each other (although in December next year, Australians should take four matches against New Zealand).
South Africa, which recently pleased neutrals, beating Australia to become world tests, has no other series of tests at home until September 2026. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will play only 10 test matches from now on February 2027.
The most loyal supporters of the English cricket would not want to see what’s going on here.
So far, this is the height of the summer, and this season, hundreds will be presented by some of the best crickets in the world, some of which – such as Steve Smith, Revin Rabindra New Zealand and “Afghanistan” – will play in competitions for the first time. There is a lot to look forward to.
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Report: This article has been updated to clarify that test cricket matches may draw.
