UK interest in remaining ETPL teams - Bachchanpublished at 16:36 GMT 25 January
Timothy Abraham
BBC Sport Journalist
Image source, ETPLEuropean T20 Premier League co-owner Abhishek Bachchan says there has been "global interest" in the tournament's three remaining unsold franchises including from investors in the UK.
The ETPL have agreed deals for three of the city-based franchises in Amsterdam, Belfast and Edinburgh with two consortiums from Australia and one from New Zealand.
BBC Sport understands the franchises were sold for £11.1m ($15m) over a 10-year period with former Australia captain Steve Waugh, current Aussie batter Glenn Maxwell and ex-New Zealand international Kyle Mills among those involved.
Attention will now switch to the sale of the ETPL teams based in Glasgow, Dublin and Rotterdam with investors from India understood to be prominent.
But Bachchan said there are also potential owners "from Europe and England" expressing interest in buying a team.
"The ETPL is like this wonderful new swimming pool where everybody's just standing around to see who's going to jump in first and take the plunge," Bachchan told BBC Stumped.
"Well, three of them have taken the plunge. And there's a lot of new enquiries. There's been interest from all over the globe.
"Obviously, the process to choose the right people to come on board is something that we take very seriously as you can see is evident from the three teams so far."
Bollywood actor and film producer Bachchan is a part-owner of the ETPL in conjunction with Rules Sport Tech, a private Indian company.
The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands.
