The investment group, who bought a 49% share in London Spirit to partner with Lord’s owner MCC earlier this year, found it “disappointing” that their big name players, including Ollie Pope, Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton, had to miss their first Hundred game against Oval Invincibles because they needed a break after taking part in the England v India test series.

Nikesh Arora told Telegraph Sport: “Some of the guys were required to rest until a few days after the first match which is kind of disappointing.

“I understand it. I think for the future it requires better planning. I would never want a sportsperson to be extended because we want them to play well for a very long period of time. They’ve just come out of a spectacular series, made even more spectacular by the ending. I’m still smiling from it.

“I just think that in future we have to make sure it’s timed in such a way that if you’re only going to have a 26-day tournament where many people invested hundreds of millions of pounds, it’s only fair that we create enough space so all the right people can play.”

The businessman believes the investment into the Hundred can only benefit all forms of cricket in the UK.

He said: “If there is a place in the world, this has to succeed.

“After India, it has to be here. Why shouldn’t a league in the UK succeed? This is where we all learnt our cricket.

“Think about the fact that there are so many new investors, this has been a windfall for English cricket, there’s going to be phenomenal facilities, phenomenal capability, kit. You know, many of the counties are on the edge of deciding how to keep growing the game of cricket because they’re financially constrained.

“This is the biggest windfall English cricket has ever had. People have to start looking at the glass half full.”