The race to acquire a team in The Hundred is intensifying. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had invited bids for the process of sale last week for all eight teams. The owners of each Indian Premier League (IPL) had initially shown interest, but now only four teams remain.
The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have officially pulled out and have informed the ECB about it. That leaves the Mumbai Indians (MI), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Delhi Capitals (DC) as the IPL franchises still in the mix. The teams they are looking to acquire are the Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Trent Rockets, and Welsh Fire.
CSK pulls out from The Hundred teams sale process
“We’ve withdrawn, and we have formally informed the England and Wales Cricket Board about it,” CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan told Cricbuzz. It was revealed last week that CSK and the Kolkata Knight Riders would pull out the bidding race of the Hundred teams, and it’s been confirmed now that at least both are indeed out.
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The Hundred teams MI, LSG, SRH & DC are hunting
Reliance Group, the owners of MI; Sanjiv Goenka, owner of LSG; and other interested parties are looking to get hold of one of these teams, London Spirit (Marylebone Cricket Club) and Oval Invincibles (Surrey County Cricket Club) and Manchester Originals (Lancashire County Cricket Club). It was previously reported that MI had shown interest in getting one of the two London teams and that could happen.
The Sun Group, the owners of SRH, are looking to get one of the Trent Rockets (Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club) or Northern Superchargers (Yorkshire County Cricket Club). GMR Group, co-owners of DC, had recently acquired Hampshire County Cricket Club and will likely bag the Southern Brave.
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