A top Silicon Valley Tech Group has major plans for English cricket. Nikesh Arora, who is the CEO of Cybercity giant Palo Alto Netws, believes that a hundred “multi-billion dollars” can develop in the brand and may be a major rival for the Indian Premier League (IPL).
His group, known as Cricket Investor Holdings Limited, popularly known as ‘Tech Titans’, recently bought a 49% stake in the London Spirit Team for £ 144 million (about $ 193 million) to buy 49% of the hundred out of a hundred. As part of the deal, Arora has now joined the board of London Spirit.
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The team will be co-co-staged by Tech Titans and Merillabone Cricket Club (MCC). This week, the members of the Consortium were invited to the Lord’s Cricket Ground, where they met with the team and enjoyed the VIP treatment.
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In a virtual auction earlier this year, the group has increased by defeating a strong competition including the bid of the RPSG group of Sanjeev Goenka. Around 15 members of the group came to see the early day of hundred 2025, where the women’s team of the London Spirit threw the Oval Invinesables, but the men’s team suffered a six -wicket defeat against the Oval Invinesals.
Recently, investors watched the match with a private suite at the Adric Stand. Even the incident brought big names together – including CEOs of Adobe, Google and YouTube. Satyan Gajwani, vice president of Times Internet, jokingly said that even the World Economic Forum cannot gather him.
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Earlier this year, all eight teams in a hundred tournament were sold for about £ 975 million (about $ 1.3 billion). So far, six of those teams have been officially sold. Two more deals are expected to happen soon, and Can International is likely to buy a stake in trent rockets, while Reliance Industries is expected to invest in Oval Invinesals.
London spent an incredible a few days with Spirit Onsepal Group @HomeofcrickIt is a unique group that leads the spirit of London to maximum heights @TheHundred pic.twitter.com/pcfvvpz8hn
– Satyan Gajwani (@Satyan) August 6, 2025
However, the deals will be sealed only after the ongoing season ends. Arora believes that all eight new investors will help to take a hundred to the next level by joining at one time. He thinks that this step like the IPL, can help to turn the tournament into one of the world’s largest and most successful cricket leagues.
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I don’t think a hundred is a bad product: Nikesh Arora
Nikesh Arora was said by ESPNCRICINFO: “The IPL started from somewhere and became a multiple dollar product. Why can’t it be that product? It is not just we; we are not just; eight new shareholders, eight new franchises or take. They are all successful businesses or cricket operations in the world.”
Arora further said, “If that energy, that passion, that creativity, and that innovation is brought to it, imagine what they can do? ECB did it?
In particular, the Tech Titans Group has 3 of the 7 seats in the New London Spirit Board. These seats are held by Nikesh Arora, Satyan Gajwani and Egon Durban, the investment company of Silver Lake.
The other four board members Robert Lawson (Chief Executive of MCC), Julian Methel (soon to join the MCC committee), Eoin Morgan (new head of cricket) and another person who will be selected by MCC. The Julian Methel will lead the board as a chair.
