Rod Bransgrove, Hampshire’s chairman, has hailed a “landmark” £120m deal to sell the club to the co-owners of the Indian Premier League’s Delhi Capitals and has predicted other counties will follow suit.
The deal makes GMR Group the first overseas owners of an English county cricket team. Bransgrove is confident they will not be the last. “This is a landmark occasion in English cricket,” he said. “But I don’t think I’ll be the last person to do it. And I think it’s going to be very good for Hampshire cricket, as, ultimately, private ownership has been to the game at large.”
