The head of the Silicon Valley technology consortium that bid £144 million (US$ 193 million approx.) for a 49% stake in London Spirit in January believes that the Hundred can become "a mutli-billion dollar product" to rival the IPL.

Nikesh Arora, the CEO of cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, leads Cricket Investor Holdings Limited - better known as the 'Tech Titans' - and is a newly-appointed board member at Spirit after they completed their lucrative deal for a minority stake. They will run the franchise as a joint venture with MCC, who hosted the consortium at Lord's this week.

The consortium has grown in number since seeing off significant competition from Sanjiv Goenka's RPSG Group in a virtual auction earlier this year, with Arora estimating that 15 of its members were at Lo

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