The cascade of cash into English cricket created by the auction of stakes in Hundred franchises climaxed Wednesday with a deal for Southern Brave.
It takes the total value of the eight-team tournament close to a mammoth £1bn ($1.2bn).
GMR, the owners of the Brave's host county Hampshire and the co-owners of Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Capitals, have agreed to pay a reported fee of nearly £50m for a 49% holding in the team.
A period of exclusivity between the counties and their prospective investors will now ensue as details of each deal for a club in the 100 balls per side competition, which features both men and women's teams, are finalized.
But with the sales process complete, it means the eight teams - which only played their first matches in 2021 - have been valued at a remarkable collective figure in excess of £950m.
The Hundred, has proved controversial, with many English and Welsh county fans angry at the way the tournament deprives their clubs of key players at the height of the season.
But cricket chiefs say funds raised from sales in Hundred franchises will support the 18 traditional counties, with current figures way in excess of the ECB's lowest original estimate of £350m.
The biggest individual Hundred deal was for the Lord's-based London Spirit, with a Silicon Valley consortium paying £145m for a minority share in a team whose total worth is valued at more than £290m.
Four groups from the lucrative IPL, cricket's wealthiest franchise competition, are now involved in the Hundred.
In addition to GMR, the other IPL outfits with Hundred stakes are Reliance (Mumbai Indians and Oval Invincibles), Sun Group (Sunrisers Hyderabad and Northern Superchargers) and RPSG (Lucknow Supergiants and Manchester Originals).
Yorkshire have already agreed to sell on their controlling 51% share in Superchargers to the Sun Group, while RPSG have negotiated to buy 70% of the Originals in their deal with Lancashire.
But other sporting groups have also ploughed large sums of money into the Hundred.
Todd Boehly, co-owner of Premier League club Chelsea, has agreed to pay nearly £40m for 49% of the Trent Rockets.
The American billionaire is also a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
Further US interest has come from Knighthead Capital, whose investors include former National Football League star Tom Brady, with the group adding a stake in Birmingham Phoenix to their existing ownership of Birmingham City football club.
And tech entrepreneur Sanjay Govil, who also owns Washington Freedom, the champions of America's Major League Cricket, has agreed to pay Glamorgan £40m for 49% of the Welsh Fire.
