Change is coming then.<\/p>\n
How much – and exactly what that change looks like – remains to be seen but what we do know is that until the ECB’s broadcast deal with Sky finishes at the end of the 2028 season, no more teams will be added.<\/p>\n
However, with Vikram Banerjee, managing director of The Hundred, saying in February that expanding the competition in future was a “no-brainer”,<\/a> additional franchises is one significant change highly likely to be considered at some stage.<\/p>\n The number of teams might not differ but come next year, some may have new identities.<\/p>\n Should the deals for stakes in Invincibles and Rockets be rubber-stamped, four Hundred sides will be at least partially influenced by Indian Premier League (IPL) owners.<\/p>\n The Sun Group, owner of IPL side Sunrisers Hyderabad, has paid just over \u00a3100m for a 100% stake in Northern Superchargers.<\/p>\n Indian company RPSG Group, which owns Lucknow Super Giants, has purchased 70% of Manchester Originals, while GMR Group, which owns Delhi Capitals, has bought 49% in Southern Brave.<\/p>\n Reliance Industries Limited, owned by the multi-billionaire Ambani family who control Mumbai Indians, is also set to purchase a 49% stake in Oval Invincibles.<\/p>\n The ECB has already received applications for the names of Superchargers and Originals to be changed.<\/p>\n