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I’m long on India, but not for long…
Two weeks ago, American investors spent $3.4 billion buying cricket teams. In a sport most Americans cannot explain.
Blackstone — the largest alternative asset manager on Earth, trillion dollars under management — just made their first sports deal ever. Not the NFL. Not the NBA. Not the Premier League. Cricket. They put perpetual capital into the Royal Challengers Bengaluru for $1.78 billion.
Same week. Rob Walton — Walmart heir, guy who paid $4.65 billion for the Denver Broncos — teams up with the Detroit Lions ownership family and drops $1.63 billion on the Rajasthan Royals. A franchise that sold for $67 million in 2008. That is a 24x return in 18 years.
Here is why they are not crazy. The IPL opening weekend this year drew 515 million viewers. The Super Bowl draws 115 million. Two cricket matches outperformed the biggest single sporting event in America by 4.5x.
And it is not just team ownership. Goldman Sachs just bought the agency that represents Tiger Woods and Caitlin Clark — for a billion dollars. Apollo launched a $6 billion dedicated sports vehicle. Simpson Thacher hired three new partners just for sports M&A.
Wall Street is not dabbling in sports. Wall Street is migrating into sports. And the sharpest money in the room picked the sport with the largest global audience that American media completely ignores.
#sports #india #cricket #sportsbusiness #wealth
The creator delivers a sports market update, explaining the recent surge of over $5 billion in American investment into Indian cricket leagues. He details specific deals by Blackstone and Rob Walton, contrasts IPL viewership with the Super Bowl to justify the investment, and concludes that Wall Street is migrating into sports, with the 'sharpest money' targeting cricket's massive global audience.
What you need to know about the $5B+ Cricket Heist
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Comments “sports” or the full report here 📤
I’m long on India, but not for long…
Two weeks ago, American investors spent $3.4 billion buying cricket teams. In a sport most Americans cannot explain.
Blackstone — the largest alternative asset manager on Earth, trillion dollars under management — just made their first sports deal ever. Not the NFL. Not the NBA. Not the Premier League. Cricket. They put perpetual capital into the Royal Challengers Bengaluru for $1.78 billion.
Same week. Rob Walton — Walmart heir, guy who paid $4.65 billion for the Denver Broncos — teams up with the Detroit Lions ownership family and drops $1.63 billion on the Rajasthan Royals. A franchise that sold for $67 million in 2008. That is a 24x return in 18 years.
Here is why they are not crazy. The IPL opening weekend this year drew 515 million viewers. The Super Bowl draws 115 million. Two cricket matches outperformed the biggest single sporting event in America by 4.5x.
And it is not just team ownership. Goldman Sachs just bought the agency that represents Tiger Woods and Caitlin Clark — for a billion dollars. Apollo launched a $6 billion dedicated sports vehicle. Simpson Thacher hired three new partners just for sports M&A.
Wall Street is not dabbling in sports. Wall Street is migrating into sports. And the sharpest money in the room picked the sport with the largest global audience that American media completely ignores.
#sports #india #cricket #sportsbusiness #wealth
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What you need to know about the $5B+ Cricket Heist
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Market Size Outlook | USD Million | 2019 - 2029
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Blackstone Steps Into Sports With $1.78B Cricket Deal
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Good morning everyone. Here's your sports market update for today. Key resistance in India has now been broken and it's time to go along on cricket. So two weeks ago, American investors spent around 3,400,000,000 buying a couple different cricket teams in a sport that most Americans can't even explain. And now Blackstone, the largest alternative asset manager on earth with a trillion dollars under management, just made their first ever sports deal. And it wasn't in the NFL or the NBA, of worse, it was in cricket. And not just any amounts of capital. I would call this perpetual amounts. And it ended up going into the
