Meet star who is set to own Shaheen Shah Afridi’s team in The Hundred, has net worth of nearly Rs 3,000 crore

Movie stars have been making their way into reasonably a bunch cricket leagues across the arena, led by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who bought the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) back in 2008. Since then actors have been buying stakes in either cricket leagues of the Indian Soccer League (ISL).

But English cricket is all set to get an unprecedented bid from a Hollywood superstar to purchase a stake in thought to be one of their teams in ‘The Hundred’. The team in question here is Welsh Fire, which featured Pakistan spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi till last year and the actor who's fascinated about buying a stake is Ryan Reynolds – star of Hollywood blockbuster ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.

In keeping with a report in ESPNCricinfo webpage, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny, who are co-owners of Wrexham AFC football team, have been involved with Glamorgan about the possibility of shopping for a stake in Welsh Fire – the Cardiff-based team contained in the ‘Hundred’. Welsh Fire featured Shaheen Shah Afridi till 2023 season and was resigned for 2024 season for a hundred,000 pounds on the choice hand the Pakistan pacer chose to skip the league this year and was replaced by New Zealand’s Matt Henry.

Reynolds, who stars as comic character Deadpool contained in the Marvel movies, and McElhenny bought Wrexham in November 2020 and have witnessed back-to-back promotions in 2022-23 and 2023-24, with the club now playing contained in the 0.33 tier of English football now. The pair are believed to be taking into consideration moreover investment in Welsh sport.

“The ECB formally started the method for securing deepest investment contained in the Hundred earlier this month. Raine, the American investment bank, has distributed prospectuses to interested parties and Vikram Banerjee, who's leading the method because the ECB’s director of business operations, said there has been a ‘unheard of level of interest from a diverse mixture of investors’,” the ESPNCricinfo report read.

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Sophia Gardens has the smallest capacity of any venue contained in the Hundred, and Welsh Fire are expected to be the cheapest franchise with an estimated valuation of around £30 million. Revenue from initial investments will be distributed across the counties but Glamorgan will be handed a 51 per cent stake in Welsh Fire which they are ready to keep watch over.

“Glamorgan have spoken to an even deal of different interested parties over the past few months, with the owners of Pakistan Super League franchise Multan Sultans understood to be among them. But there has been particular intrigue across the possibility of Reynolds and McElhenny buying a stake which Dan Cherry, the club’s chief executive, believes is ‘an exhilarating proposition’,” the report said.

Hollywood star Reynolds has a reported net-worth of around $350 million or Rs 3,000 crore, in line with reports. Or not it should be some distance believed that an even deal of his wealth comes from his business ventures which encompass sales of companies like ‘Aviation Gin’ and ‘Mint Mobile’. He sold Aviation Gin to Diageo in a deal eventually be worth $610 million. The deal paid $335 million cash upfront.

Reynolds’ biggest movies on the box place of job encompass ‘Deadpool’ (2016), which grossed over $780 million worldwide, and its sequel ‘Deadpool 2’ (2018), which grossed over $785 million. He has also appeared in other a hit films equivalent to ‘National Lampoon’s Van Wilder’ (2002), ‘The Proposal’ (2009), ‘Safe House’ (2012) and ‘6 Underground’ (2019), among others.

Alternatively, head and shoulders above remainder of his movies, Reynolds’s biggest blockbuster has been his last movie – ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ with Hugh Jackman, which has reportedly grossed $1.32 billion worldwide to this point.