Invest in Breybourne Cricket Club

From a dream, an idea, a thought, to creating something meaningful that brings generational impact to the sport is how Breybourne was conceived.

Hi, my name is Paresh Patel, and I am the founder of Breybourne Cricket Club. 

Behind soccer, cricket is the second most popular sport in the world – with 2.5 billion global players and fans, and a market size of $10+ billion.

Until now, professional cricket has not taken off in the United States. But we believe that now is the time for cricket to enter the American market. And at Breybourne, we’re going to be at the center of that.

Breybourne is a professional cricket club in the Chicago region. But it’s so much more than that. We’re also building a world class entertainment venue – a stadium, clubhouse, hotel, lounge and restaurant. Breybourne is a majority stake holder in the team and stadium.

The Stadium Complex:

We are building a 25,000 capacity stadium in Chicago suburb Oswego, IL. 

This will be the largest dedicated cricket stadium in the United States.

We have acquired the land (34 acres). 

And our development plans have been approved by the relevant local authorities. 

Beside the stadium will sit a 120 room full service hotel with an event space. 

And we will build a 13K sq ft, stand alone restaurant.

Our 24K sq ft Members Clubhouse will host exclusive members only space, an event space, restaurant, and lounge.

And a Players Clubhouse will house world class team lockers and facilities including an indoor cricket academy, 15 suites on top for stadium viewing, and a public sports bar.

The Cricket Team:

At the core of Breybourne Cricket Club is a commitment to building a professional cricket team that competes at the highest levels of the sport in the U.S.

In 2022, we bought a franchise in the USA Premier League. And that same year, we won the championship!

Here's a video of South African superstar (and Breybourne investor) JP Duminy congratulating our players after our triumph!

This year we secured a franchise in the Midwest Premier League. 

In the coming years, our aim is to become an expansion team of Major League Cricket (MLC).

Currently, there are six MLC teams: Los Angeles Knight Riders, MI New York, San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings, and Washington Freedom. But the MLC leadership team have expressed an unsurprising desire to expand with a franchise in Chicago. We intend to fill that berth.

Our stadium plans have been approved by the relevant local authorities, and as soon as we raise the capital to get started, we can begin construction. 

We plan to build out the stadium complex in five phases: 

Phase 1: Lay the field and level the ground.

Phase 2: Build the parking lot, lights, berms (grass seating with a capacity of 1,200), and Players Clubhouse.

Phase 3: Build an additional north parking lot, the Members Clubhouse, the restaurant pad and hotel pad, and add 6,000 physical seats.

Phase 4: Add more seats – bringing the capacity to 14,000 permanent seats.

Phase 5: Add even more seats, bringing the capacity to 25,000.

See the architect renditions below to get a sense of what the final stadium complex will look like. 

We get goosebumps looking at them!

While the venue will be used for other eventerainment events (music concerts, festivals, conferences, etc.), it will be the largest dedicated cricket venue in the United States. Right next door to the third biggest city in the country.

If you’ve watched the movie Field of Dreams, that’s what we’re building. (Although my wife tells me I don’t look too much like Kevin Costner!).

And some of the design influences for our Members Clubhouse:

As mentioned above, cricket is the second biggest sport in the world. With an annual market size of $10+ billion. 

And we believe now is the time for the sport to take the American market by storm.

In the recent 2024 Twenty20 (T20) World Cup, in one of the greatest upsets in the history of the game of cricket, the United States team beat Pakistan (currently ranked seventh best in the world).

The game was played in Dallas (the United States was one of the hosts of the World Cup, along with several Caribbean nations), and the U.S. victory captured the imagination of cricket fans throughout the country.

Another exciting development in U.S. cricket is the roll-out of Major League Cricket in 2023. The league currently has six teams, but has plans to expand. MI New York won the inaugural championship in 2023. In 2024, Washington Freedom took home the crown. 

The league featured star names like Faf Du Plessis (5.1M Instagram followers) and the Australian captain Pat Cummins (2.6M Instagram followers), who said of his first season in the MLC, “it's a really high standard. The caliber of players is ridiculous and for a competition in its second season, it's super organized and super competitive… I couldn't speak highly enough of it”. 

Another factor at play in the increase in cricket’s popularity in the U.S. is demographics. The number of people of South East Asian descent living in America has increased from around 1 million in 1990, to 6 million today. And as we all know, we South East Asians are crazy about cricket!

And if cricket is poised to explosively grow in the U.S. as a whole, we believe there is also a hole in the Chicago market. None of the six MLC teams are based on Chicago at the moment. Even though Chicago is the third biggest city in the country – with an extremely vibrant sports scene (Bears (NFL), White Sox and Cubs (MLB), Blackhawks (NHL), Bulls (NBA), Fire (MLS) etc.).

Even at the start of our journey, we have already assembled a world class team to bring our Breybourne Cricket Club dream to reality.

As the Chairman and CEO, I personally have deep experience with multiple startups, company acquisitions, and real estate development. We have previous experience owning and operating retail stores, restaurants, manufacturing, and even run a horse farm raising horses for standardbred racing. And of course, I am a lifelong cricket player and fan! 

A fun personal anecdote – cricket is so central to my life, that I even met my wife at a cricket match in Mumbai back in 1998! The reason the clock in the Breybourne logo points to 3 o’clock, is because that is the exact time that I met my wife at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai!

Our Advisory Board includes South African legend JP Duminy (46 tests, 199 ODIs and 81 T20 matches for South Africa). As well as Ajay Seth and Naveed Dafedar – who bring both deep cricket and industry experience and expertise.

To-date we’ve raised $450K in capital, from private investors, including JP Duminy. With another $200K committed over the coming few months – excluding the amount raised in our Wefunder community round.

We’re looking to raise $6M in total this round. This will be used for Phase I and II of construction on the stadium complex.

Investors will benefit from profit distributions after a 24-month construction period, with returns expected to start within two years after the completion of Phase 3. With our potential expansion into Major League Cricket, the upside for investors is substantial, as the franchise’s valuation could increase exponentially in the coming years.

We are raising funds through a community round to accelerate the construction process and invite the global cricket community to be a part of this groundbreaking project. 

We want to put our fans at the center of everything we do. Local residents of Oswego, Fox Valley Region, and the Chicago region. We would invite cricket enthusiasts from Midwest states, nationwide and even international, who would love to see this beautiful game flourish in the United States.

With the backing of cricket superstars like JP Duminy and the support of our growing community, Breybourne Cricket Club is on track to make history. Now is your chance to join us in building a world-class cricket destination in the United States.

This is not just an investment in cricket; it's an investment in a legacy. 

Welcome to Breybourne Cricket Club.