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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
24 Mar 2025 Acquired Indian Premier League Cricket
“Preity Zinta’s group gets the Kings XI Punjab for $76 million, suspiciously close in price to the $75 million Shah Rukh Khan bid, but only $1 million more. Anyway, this (I think) is known at the time.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- belief
- Recorded
- 24 Mar 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Indian Premier League Cricket
Transcript context
…The way that the weighing machine of this market turned out is, hey, the teams actually are all pretty equally valuable. They did a great job balancing the league. That’s exactly what I read to Ambani only paying $110 million. Totally. The central revenue stream. This is an incredibly well-architected league. The cheapest franchise, as we said, is the Rajasthan Royals, which is bought by a UK investor consortium led by Manoj Badale, who actually lives in the UK in London for $67 million, so roughly half the price of the Mumbai franchise. Shah Rukh Khan’s group gets the Kolkata Knight Riders for $75 million. Preity Zinta’s group gets the Kings XI Punjab for $76 million, suspiciously close in price to the $75 million Shah Rukh Khan bid, but only $1 million more. Anyway, this (I think) is known at the time. One of the other board members of the BCCI who would soon become the chairman of the BCCI, a gentleman named N Srinivasan, who also is an industrialist who owns the India Cements company, buys the Chennai Super Kings for $91 million, despite also being a board member of the BCCI. Hey.…
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