3 weeks ago
Counties person been fixed until 10 May to bespeak if they judge a connection from nan England and Wales Cricket Board for nan waste of teams successful The Hundred.
As reported by nan Telegraph, external, nan ECB will waste a 49% liking successful each of nan 8 teams and administer nan gross to nan home game.
That fig is up from a antecedently discussed 30%.
The remaining 51% will beryllium fixed to nan 8 hosts of The Hundred teams, who will past person nan action to waste some, all, aliases support it.
The ECB will clasp ownership of nan title itself, which began successful 2021.
This period main executive Richard Gould said nan ECB was “starting to pursue” backstage finance successful Hundred teams.
Revenue raised from nan waste of nan ECB’s 49% liking successful The Hundred teams would beryllium distributed betwixt nan 18 first-class counties, nan Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and nan recreational game.
The 8 hosts that would person a 51% liking successful their teams are Lord’s (MCC/London Spirit), The Oval (Surrey/Oval Invincibles), Southampton (Hampshire/Southern Brave), Cardiff (Glamorgan/Welsh Fire), Trent Bridge (Nottinghamshire/Trent Rockets), Edgbaston (Warwickshire/Birmingham Phoenix), Old Trafford (Lancashire/Manchester Originals) and Headingley (Yorkshire/Northern Superchargers).
If nan hosts waste immoderate aliases each of their stake, they will bespeak arsenic specified to nan ECB and nan waste will beryllium managed centrally, astir apt this autumn.
There is nary denotation that The Hundred will grow from 8 teams until astatine slightest nan extremity of nan existent broadcast rhythm successful 2028.
