{"id":390409,"date":"2026-01-25T23:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:07:17","slug":"etpl-abhishek-bachchan-says-interest-from-uk-investors-in-european-t20-premier-league-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390409\/","title":{"rendered":"ETPL: Abhishek Bachchan says ‘interest’ from UK investors in European T20 Premier League franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"

European T20 Premier League co-owner Abhishek Bachchan says there has been “global interest” in the tournament’s three remaining unsold franchises including from investors in the UK.<\/p>\n

The ETPL have agreed deals for three of the city-based franchises<\/a> in Amsterdam, Belfast and Edinburgh with two consortiums from Australia and one from New Zealand.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport understands the franchises were sold for \u00a311.1m ($15m) over a 10-year period with former Australia captain Steve Waugh, current Aussie batter Glenn Maxwell and ex-New Zealand international Kyle Mills among those involved.<\/p>\n

Attention will now switch to the sale of the ETPL teams based in Glasgow, Dublin and Rotterdam with investors from India understood to be prominent.<\/p>\n

But Bachchan said there are also potential owners “from Europe and England” expressing interest in buying a team.<\/p>\n

“The ETPL is like this wonderful new swimming pool where everybody’s just standing around to see who’s going to jump in first and take the plunge,” Bachchan told BBC Stumped.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Well, three of them have taken the plunge. And there’s a lot of new enquiries. There’s been interest from all over the globe.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, the process to choose the right people to come on board is something that we take very seriously as you can see is evident from the three teams so far.”<\/p>\n

Bollywood actor and film producer Bachchan is a part-owner of the ETPL in conjunction with Rules Sport Tech, a private Indian company.<\/p>\n

The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European T20 Premier League co-owner Abhishek Bachchan says there has been “global interest” in the tournament’s three remaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}