A share of Leeds-based Northern Superchargers might be up for grabs when gross sales of stakes in groups in The Hundred resume on Wednesday.
Yorkshire, hosts of the franchise at Headingley, may turn out to be the second county handy over a majority stake.
BBC Sport has discovered the house owners of Indian Premier League sides Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are among the many events, together with an unknown bidder from the USA.
Stakes in 5 groups have been bought since auctions started final Thursday.
A pause on Tuesday was designed to permit overwhelmed bidders time to regroup.
Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves has mentioned the membership, which is owned by members, should turn out to be a personal construction with a purpose to survive a monetary disaster. It owes nearly £15m to the Graves household belief. Nonetheless, it has additionally been reported that the controversial plans to demutualise could possibly be scrapped if the sale of its Hundred franchise raises sufficient cash.
After Superchargers will come the sale of a stake in Trent Rockets, with Southern Courageous – prone to go to the co-owners of Delhi Capitals after their buyout of Hampshire – concluding the method subsequent week.
To this point, all the worth of 5 groups – London Spirit, Oval Invincibles, Birmingham Phoenix, Welsh Fireplace and the Originals – has come to round £640m.
Surrey negotiated a £60m value with the house owners of Mumbai Indians for a 49% stake within the Invincibles, the county retaining the 51% share given to them by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
That was adopted by three comparable offers. Warwickshire agreed a 49% sale of Birmingham Phoenix to Birmingham Metropolis house owners Knighthead Capital for £40m and Glamorgan bought the identical stake in Welsh Fireplace to IT entrepreneur Sanjay Govil for £40m.
In between, a value of £145m for 49% of Lord’s-based London Spirit was agreed between Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC) and a Silicon Valley consortium led by Nikesh Arora. The dimensions of that deal confounded expectations on the ECB.
Lancashire turned the primary county to promote a part of their share, agreeing a deal for 70% of the Originals with the house owners of Lucknow Tremendous Giants for round £81m.
The 5 gross sales come to a complete of round £366m, nearly all of which might be cut up among the many 18 first-class counties, MCC and leisure recreation.
All offers now enter an eight-week exclusivity interval with a purpose to finalise the partnerships.