Foreign investors have been googly-eyed about English soccer for decades. Now, they are buying into an even more quintessential English sport — cricket. Auctions of franchises in a tournament called The Hundred have attracted investors from India,

With massive cash influx through the sale of ‘The Hundred’ franchises in the past week, concerns have been raised about Indian owners and their potentially ulterior motives with English cricket

The public is used to crackpot academics whining about the wickedness of the British Empire, and not long ago I read about one who complained about how our forebears had “exploited” the people of India by making them play our sports,