What has changed in The Hundred for 2026? - Published The 2026 edition of The Hundred gets under way on Tuesday and will have some significant changes from previous years. In 2025, the ECB finalised the sale of stakes in all eight teams with over £500m of the funds generated set to be reinvested back into English and Welsh cricket.

As part of the changes, some team names and badges have also been updated to reflect their new owners. Here is a look at all of the changes coming on and off the field for this year's competition. Get in touch Send us your questions What are the key changes?

Since the 2025 Hundred campaign ended last August, all eight teams have been either partially or fully taken over by new owners as part of significant financial investment into the competition. Of those eight, four have gone to ownership groups that are also involved in the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises. Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly is also among the new investors after purchasing a 49% stake in the Trent Rockets.

Following the influx of new ownership, there have also been some changes made to a few team news, badges and kits. Three team names have changed to be in line with IPL clubs they are partners with. The Northern Superchargers have become Sunrisers Leeds, the Oval Invincibles are now known as MI London and the Manchester Originals have become the Manchester Super Giants.

That trio of teams have also updated their badges and kits following their re-branding. While the Southern Brave have not changed their name, their colour scheme has switched from green and black to blue and red. MI London have also switched colour schemes to blue and gold, in line with their partner IPL side the Mumbai Indians.

London Spirit have changed jerseys from dark blue to purple and black with a red and yellow trim. Sunrisers Leeds have swapped from purple and white strips to orange and black. Manchester Super Giants are yet to release their shirt for the campaign, but have changed their badge to a red, white and yellow colour scheme with an elephant on it.

Trent Rockets, Welsh Fire and Birmingham Phoenix are the only teams to not make significant changes to their badges or shirt colour schemes. - Grace Ballinger column: How will a revamped Hundred play out? - Published1 day ago When does it start, when are the knockouts and when is the final?

The opening match of the 2026 edition of The Hundred is in the women's competition between MI London and Sunrisers Leeds at The Oval. That starts at 14:45 BST on Tuesday, 21 July. The two teams will meet later that evening in the men's competition.

There are daily matches from then until Wednesday, 12 August, which is the final day of the group stage in both competitions. On Friday, 14 August the eliminator will take place in both competitions. There, the teams finishing second and third in the group stage will meet in a play-off, with the winner facing the group stage winners in the final.

The finals for both competitions take place two days later on Sunday, 16 August in a double header at Lord's. Where are the big players playing now? New investment brought major changes in the player auction, which took place in March.