Glamorgan have welcomed the “exciting proposition” of Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney investing in Welsh Hearth.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has handed a 51 per cent holding in every of the eight groups to the host counties and is at the moment searching for bidders for the remaining 49 per cent stakes.
Reynolds and McElhenney grew to become co-owners of Wrexham in 2020, overseeing the membership’s return to the Soccer League and serving to them safe back-to-back promotions from the Nationwide League and League Two.
In the course of the 2022 marketing campaign each the boys’s and ladies’s Welsh Hearth groups completed backside of their teams. In the latest version, the ladies’s aspect made it to the ultimate the place they have been crushed by London Spirit whereas the boys’s group completed sixth.
They’ve been tipped as potential traders within the Cardiff-based Hundred aspect, which is anticipated to fetch significantly lower than probably the most extremely sought-after outfits stationed at Lord’s and the Oval.
Glamorgan chief govt Dan Cherry confirmed {that a} tentative method had been initiated in an try to find out their curiosity.
He instructed ESPN Cricinfo: “It’s a possible possibility. Contact’s been made. There’s not been something substantial come again but, however we’re within the course of and I do know that they’re going to actually be included in any course of that we have got going ahead.
“All bids and offers that are going to come in are going to be interesting to us, and we’re going to have to evaluate what the best bid is for us.
“There’s apparent curiosity in what Ryan Reynolds and the blokes have completed at Wrexham, which has been incredible for soccer in North Wales. That does not essentially imply to say that it will be the fitting possibility for us, but when they’re concerned about speaking to us, clearly it is an thrilling proposition.
“We want to make the right decision for the club and the game: we want to find the right partner, the right investor that’s going to improve what we do and support us along the journey – not take over.
“We’re eager to construct a partnership the place individuals can add worth to us as a membership, whether or not or not it’s on the cricket aspect, round gamers and coaches and sharing academies, or extra on the industrial aspect. We’re on the lookout for a real accomplice that may add worth – not seeking to lose management and promote our soul, as some individuals would have it.”
Welsh Hearth males’s group completed sixth throughout the 2024 marketing campaign of The Hundred
Prospectuses have been despatched to events, believed to incorporate associates of all 10 Indian Premier League franchises, sovereign wealth funds and personal fairness teams.
The ECB’s director of enterprise operations, Vikram Banerjee, stated this month the method had attracted a “diverse mix of investors globally” and that the sale represented “the most significant private investment opportunity in the history of cricket in our country”.
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