Shah Rukh Khan's Knight Riders Group owns franchises in India, Trinidad, Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles competing across four leagues, twelve months of the year, on three continents. Almost nobody noticed it happen. In 2008, Shah Rukh Khan paid roughly $75 million for a cricket team in Kolkata. In 2026, the organisation he built around that team operates across four T20 leagues, has just opened the first privately owned cricket stadium built by a franchise outside its home country
