IPL owners bring Indian franchise colours onto English grounds
In its fifth year, the Hundred has gone private with IPL owners now controlling half its teams and reshaping how the competition looks.
Manchester Super Giants ran out at Lord's wearing the exact same kit as India's Lucknow Super Giants, including the elephant on the club crest. IPL owners have bought into half the Hundred teams, importing their Indian franchise colours onto English grounds.
Aiden Markram now captains all three Super Giant franchises. Five years since the Hundred launched as an explosion of invented colour and manufactured identity, its first privatised season sees that identity outsourced wholesale to Indian franchise branding.
- Fifth year
- Competition age
- Half the Hundred's teams
- IPL-owned teams
- All three Super Giant franchises
- Markram franchises
- Oval Invincibles now MI London
- Identity contested
Why it mattersIPL owners now set the colours and rosters for half the teams, meaning English domestic cricket has partly been absorbed into a global franchise machine.
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