{"id":61487,"date":"2026-04-23T02:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61487"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:39:20","slug":"bellingham-buys-minority-stakes-in-the-hundred-franchise-birmingham-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/bellingham-buys-minority-stakes-in-the-hundred-franchise-birmingham-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellingham Buys Minority Stakes in the Hundred Franchise Birmingham Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>England \u200cinternational Jude Bellingham has acquired a minority stake in The Hundred franchise Birmingham Phoenix, co-owners Warwickshire County Cricket Club said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Real Madrid midfielder will take a 1.2% holding and will focus \u200cmainly on \u200ccommunity engagement and \u200csocial \u2060projects. Warwickshire will \u2060remain the majority stakeholder with 50.4% shares, and Knighthead Capital Management will hold 48.4%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I feel like I owe the \u2060city something,&#8221; the 22-year-old \u200csaid \u200cin a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was fortunate \u200cgrowing up I had \u200cthe option of playing cricket and playing football, but some kids don\u2019t have that \u200copportunity. It\u2019s important that if I can get \u2060involved \u2060in something like this to shine a light on an opportunity for kids, then even better.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sixth season of the tournament, which uses a 100-ball format, runs from July 21 to August 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England \u200cinternational Jude Bellingham has acquired a minority stake in The Hundred franchise Birmingham Phoenix, co-owners Warwickshire County Cricket Club said on Wednesday. The Real Madrid midfielder will take a 1.2% holding and will focus \u200cmainly on \u200ccommunity engagement and \u200csocial \u2060projects. Warwickshire will \u2060remain the majority stakeholder with 50.4% shares, and Knighthead Capital Management &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61489,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61487\/revisions\/61489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}