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Cricketers who own sports teams

Inception is one of the greatest movies ever made. The plot is one hell of an intriguing one which focuses on multiple layers of dreams or, in other words, dream(s) within a dream. Dreams in itself are a bit of a debatable phenomenon, so layered dreaming is even more interesting.So when sportsmen own sports team(s), it feels like inception--sportsperson owner of a sports team. The thing with a sportsperson owning a sports team is that they are better equipped to do so as they, being one with sports, know what is best for the team in a sporting sense.There are many sportspeople in the world that own sports team. Our article will be cornered to only cricketers owning sports team and here are 10 cricketers who own a team in the world of sports...

#1 Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar (C) is one of the co-owners of the Kerala franchise in the ISL

We start off with the one who many people see as a God. If cricket is your religion, then Sachin is almost certainly your God--and it doesn't really suit a Lord to not own a team.

But the fact of the matter is that he does. Once India initiated their own football version of the IPL, named the Indian Super League, many cricketers were rumoured to buy some teams and Sachin Tendulkar was one among them.

In the end, he did buy a team as he became the owner of the Kerala franchise and named it Kerala Blasters. The man certainly seems to love the term 'blasters' and it isn't surprising given that he was the “Master Blaster” during his best years as a cricketer.

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