India's super wealthy Ambani family made a projected £60 million investment in the Oval Invincibles team in this week's Hundred auction] Never mind the lounge suits and tailored jackets so beloved of Lord's; after a £280 million scramble that has delivered eye-watering investment from the likes of NFL legend Tom Brady, the chief executives of Microsoft and Google, and India's super-rich Ambani family, the world of English cricket is about to be turned on its head, if not sartorially then certainly in every other sense.
But even Brady's wealth is eclipsed by that of India's Ambani family, who made a projected £60 million investment in the Oval Invincibles, the tournament's reigning champions, through Reliance Industries Ltd on the same day.
India's super wealthy Ambani family made a projected £60 million investment in the Oval Invincibles team in this week's Hundred auction.
The wealth of the 67-year-old, whose firm Reliance Industries made a successful bid for the Oval Invincibles, is estimated at £75bn] The 47-year-old is a minority investor in Knighthead Capital Management, a New York-based private equity firm that acquired a controlling stake in League One football club Birmingham City in 2023 through Shelby Companies Limited.
Tom Brady and India's richest family who had the Kardashians at their wedding snap up English cricket teams alongside CEOs of Microsoft and Google in sport's latest gold rush English cricket, for so long run by the well-heeled and played by the privately-educated, is no longer the sole province of the blazer brigade.
