- Microsoft and PDG alphabet are among the latest investors in a London cricket team
- London Spirit Seals offers 145 million sterling pounds for a 49% participation in the franchise
- BID conducted by the president of Palo Alto Networks Nikesh Arora
The CEOs of Alphabet and Microsoft are one of several technology leaders behind a record offer for a minority participation in a franchise in the Cent Cricket in the United Kingdom.
Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai joined a number of other cricket fans occupying major roles in technological companies that have met for an offer of 145 million pounds Sterling for 49% in the London Spirit franchise.
The offer is the most important of this year’s call for tenders, and values the spirit of London, which plays its matches on the emblematic cricket field in the capital, with more than 300 million pounds sterling .
Deal London Spirit
Nikesh Arora, Paltor Alto Networks, who directs the Marylebone Cricket Cricket Cricket (MCC), owner of Lord’s, experienced the official offer by a consortium called Cricket Investor Holdings Limited. net individuals ”.
With Nadella and Pichai, this includes Shantanu Narayen, Managing Director of Adobe, Egon Durban, Managing Director of Silver Lake Management, and Satyan Gajwani, co-founder of Major League Cricket and Vice-President of the Internet.
Nadella and Pichai are both big cricket fans, who benefit from a huge base of fans in their country of origin from India. Nadella in particular is known to sneak in cricket references in the background of online discussions and addresses, and is also an investor in the new cricket competition of the major leagues, co-owner of the Seattle Orcas team.
The group was unable to teach only for a participation of 49% due to the conservation of the rest of the MCC. Each hosts from the eight teams received a 51% stake in its franchise, which they can sell or keep, the ECB then selling the remaining 49%.
Elsewhere in the auctions, the Indian-American IT entrepreneur Sanjay Govil, the founder and president of Infinite Computer Solutions, also spent 80 million pounds sterling for participation in the Welsh Fire franchise.
The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, founder of the Reliance group, took the participation of the invincible oval, the other franchise in London in competition.
Via cricket.com
