Microsoft and Alphabet CEOs are among the latest investors in a London cricket team London Spirit seals £145m deal for 49% ...

Barclays signed up as new lead sponsor at Lord's cricket ground - The high street lender is already title sponsor of Barclays’ Women’s Super League, banking partner of the Premier League and banking ...

In February 1872, Middlesex CCC leased a ground in Chelsea from the Prince family and three months later played their first game there. The problem for club and members was that cricket was always ...

Four years after the launch of The Hundred, the eight teams have been valued at £975m. Not bad for a competition only played ...

Foreign investors have been googly-eyed about English soccer for decades. Now they are buying into an even more ...

English cricket's The Hundred has been popular with crowds but could do with more big names. The stakes are higher now as investors come in for a piece of the cake.

A consortium of tech billionaires agrees a fee of £145m for a stake in London Spirit and with it the chance to form a partnership with Lord's.

London Spirit is attractive to potential investors because the team plays at Lord’s, a ground widely referred to as the “home of cricket.” ...