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It was indeed the cricket summer that controls England.

A series of five light test matches has ended from five games with India – the financial strength of the global Cricket – earlier this week in some way it is possible to decrease as one of The greatest collection of games that have ever played.

Aside. Cricket has many forms. The longest is known to match the test and can last for up to five days – and it is still likely to end in the tie. Then there is one international day. Each side gets a plate of up to 50 “amounts”, with one more than six balls. After that, there are 20 or T20, where each side gets 20 amounts or 120 balls.

Finally, there are a hundred, the shortest everything, and it is one of the girls of the ideas of the ruling body for sport here, the Cricket Council in England and Wales (or the European Central Bank – is not confused with it with last European Central Bank).

Competition has now become a big business, and earlier this year, it attracted record amounts of investment – especially from the United States and India – to the professional cricket game in this country. More about it in a moment.

Hundreds, which started on Tuesday and played for five weeks during the summer vacation of the English school, were born in very political conditions.

It was visible by the Cricket Council to attract new fans who confuse longer forms than the game. However, in practice, it was also designed to take power away from the 18 provinces that were traditional of professional cricket origin in England and Wales.

The Cricket Council did not, before hundreds, had no assets for sale other than television rights – and the accompanying commercial opportunities – for the international teams of men and women in England, and many of this income returned to the provinces. It was concerned that with the launch of the cricket game in countries such as India and Australia at the expense of potential international cricket, the value of these TV rights may decrease. Hence the creation of its own championship.

Jose Atkinson from England during the fifth day of the test match between England and India in Kia Owfal on August 4, 2025 in London, England.

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District boycott has received part of the money to calm any objections. These concerns were well postponed, to some extent, it was directed by the events: the championship, which was played at the peak of the summer, has pushed the traditional provincial combinations to the margins of the season because many of the best boycott players-who get a good reward to do so-will compete in it.

This marginalization has harmed the boycott championship, the most sustainable competition in sports, and local competitions, including T20 Blast, the largest money in English and Wallisy provinces over the past two decades.

The hundred came to a difficult start. The first draft of the competition was held in October 2019, months before Kovid was beaten, and payment for the first planned season was paid.

When a hundred finally began in 2021, the cricket plate considered it immediate success: the reasons were packed, the TV fans were high and social media clips showed nearly 35 million times.

Some of them were not surprised by this.

Mike Aton, a former leader in England, has now wrote the most distinguished writer in sport and broadcaster, at times at the end of the first season: “The cricket game is a great game. A stage in high summer, and you receive reasonable prices, and give it oxygen from the speech, then it is written, then followed, then followed, then followed, then faded, then faded, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then Then, then, on the night, condens it, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then pour all your love, interest and marketing on that, people will come of all ages, religions, gender, backgrounds and capabilities.

Since then, the hundred continued to prosper, not the least financial. This was confirmed when, in February of this year, the eight percent was estimated at a little at 975 million pounds ($ 1.3 billion) in the wake of a bidding from three rounds that attracted attention from all over the world.

It is important, while getting 520 million pounds can be pumped into this sport, the Cricket Council in England and Wales kept a controlling share in the competition.

This was a special victory for Richard Thompson, Chairman of the Board, who recently revealed that on his second day in the job in 2022, he received an offer from BridgePoint, the private stock company, to buy the entire tournament for 350 million pounds.

Some of the amounts paid for risks in unusual difference.

The highest silicone crochet investor in Wadi, pays 145 million pounds for 49 % of London’s spirit, the concession in Lords, a distinctive Kricit land known as the “Cricket House”.

The Cricket Investor Holdings range was expanded by Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks giant Cyber Security, which is supported, among other things, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella and Silver Lake, the investment giant in the United States.

But the huge amounts were mired in some other teams. The value of the other franchise in London, Oval Instinkibles, reached 125 million pounds after selling 49 % of the Rise Worldwide, a subsidiary of the Reliant Industries, owned by the richest family in India, Ambanis. They also have the Mumbai Indian Indian team in the IPL, as well as its sister teams, Mi Cape Town, Mi Emirates and Mi New York.

Meanwhile, the value of Manchester Orinealz reached 116 million pounds after a 70 % stake was obtained by RPSG, the Indian group controlled by billionaire Sanjev Gwnca, which also owns the Leno Super Giantes team.

The value of Trent Rocks from Nutinghamsheire reached 79 million pounds after Cain International obtained Cain International, the real estate investment company owned by Jonathan Goldstein and Todi Bohli, the owner of Chelsea Football Club.

“Haves” and “Have-Nots”

The arrival of all this money in the English cricket game, which is not surprising, given the emotion raised by this sport and the base of the familiar fans, created new concerns.

One of them is that the money will be lost, as happened in the English Rugby Union, which got a huge cash injection when CVC Capital Partners in 2013 got a 27 % stake in the local competition in sports. Three clubs – wasps, Worsester Woriors and Irish London – after that they went to a bust, and many others oscillated on the edge of the abyss.

Another concern, linked to the first, is whether the English game is more divided between “Haves” and “Have-Nots”. The Leonard Cortis Financial Cartette report, which was published last month, revealed that the three largest provinces – Sari, Lancashire and Warwikchire based in Birmingham -are already representing 44 % of the total revenue for all of the 18th -class provinces in 2023. The three poorest provinces – Leicester, Derbacheire, Northamptonchyire – only 5.6 % between them.

Rob Wilson, co -author of the report, said that a number of provinces are excessively dependent on the financing of the Crick Board of England and Wales, but added that the hundred was, likely, a decisive turning point.

He told the Guardian newspaper: “The truth is that the European Central Bank’s revenue structure enables the provinces to be in the formats in which they are. This will be turbocharged with hundreds of money.”

“The important thing is that the European Central Bank takes care of this money and how they distribute it so that the clubs do not waste it.”

The other concern on a hundred, not at least for hikers, is that it and other chirkey concessions continue to get rid of the quality and regularity of international structures. There were already skirmishes: for example, last year, England recalled a number of players from the IPL before the T20 World Cup. England declined to choose one of these players, Jacob Bethael, in May this year for a test against Zimbabwe so that he could continue to play in the IPL.

So there is already a club for a rural tension – similar to the planets that led to professional football for years – and given the extraordinary rewards offered, especially in the IPL, the players are likely to be over time to choose the cricket game for the privilege.

This has already been seen all over the world in Cricket countries less financially. Quinton de Cook and Heinrich Classine, Trinidadian Nicholas Bayan, the most suitable player in the West Indies in T20, are among those who were weed from the international cricket game earlier than they would have done this for years, to focus on Cricket concession.

The cricket game is already where most of the TV revenue is for the rest of the world. The series of three major tests in the world-India, Australia and England-play more than three games and then against each other (although Australians host a series of four games against New Zealand next year).

South Africa, which has recently been delighted by overcoming Australia to become a global test hero, does not have another home test until September 2026. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will play 10 test matches only between now to February 2027.

The English language of the English language will not want to see this here.

Currently, despite the rise in summer, this season will be distinguished from the 100 best cricket players in the world, and some – such as Steve Smith in Australia, New Zealand Rashin Ravindra, and Nour Ahmed in New Zealand – will play in competition for the first time. There is a lot to look forward to.

Ian King

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