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More matches in next year’s Caribbean T20 tournament
Published:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
ST JOHN’S—Next year’s Caribbean Twenty20 tournament, to be staged from January 6–20 in Trinidad and St Lucia, will be played under a new format. The marquee annual West Indies Cricket Board tournament will feature the seven regional teams—Barbados, Combined Campuses & Colleges, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, reigning champions T&T, and Windward Islands—in 23 matches.
The seven regional teams will contest a non-elimination, preliminary competition, with a new route for the teams to reach the final on January 20 at the Beausejour Cricket Ground, St. Lucia.
Teams will play each other once. The team which finishes with the highest number of points after all of the preliminary matches will automatically qualify for the final while second and third will be involved in a play-off to qualify for the final.
The winner of the tournament will qualify for a place in next year’s Champions League Twenty20. “This format will allow the regional teams to increase the number of matches in a form of the game, which has become very popular around the world, and of which we are now world champions,” said WICB manager, cricket operations, Roland Holder. “It was previously four, but now there are six matches each. This is in keeping with the WICB’s mandate to increase the amount of matches that teams play at the regional level.”
Reigning champions T&T will face long-standing rivals Jamaica in the opening match of next year’s CT20 on home soil at the Queen’s Park Oval on Sunday January 6 following the official opening ceremony. There will be two matches played on the succeeding days of the tournament before the play-off on Saturday January 19 and the final, one day later. All matches will be broadcast live on ESPN. The play-off and the final will be preceded by Twenty20 Internationals between West Indies women and South Africa women.
Schedule
(Queen’s Park Oval,
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad)
Sunday January 6
T&T vs Jamaica – 8 pm
Monday January 7
Barbados vs Leewards – 4 pm
Guyana vs CCC – 8 pm
Tuesday January 8
Jamaica vs Barbados – 4 pm
T&T vs CCC – 8 pm
Wednesday January 9
Windwards vs Jamaica – 4 pm
T&T vs Leewards – 8 pm
Thursday January 10
CCC vs Windwards – 4 pm
Guyana vs Barbados – 8 pm
Friday January 11
Leewards vs Jamaica – 4 pm
CCC vs Barbados – 8 pm
Saturday January 12
Windwards vs Leewards – 4 pm
T&T vs Guyana – 8 pm
(Beausejour, Gros-Islet, St. Lucia)
Tuesday January 15
Guyana vs Jamaica – 4 pm
Windwards vs T&T – 8 pm
Wednesday January 16
CCC vs Leewards – 4 pm
Barbados vs T&T – 8 pm
Thursday January 17
Leewards vs Guyana – 4 pm
Windwards vs Barbados – 8 pm
Friday January 18
CCC vs Jamaica – 4 pm
Windwards vs Guyana – 8 pm
Saturday January 19
Playoff
2nd place vs 3rd place – 8 pm
Sunday January 20
Final
1st place vs winner of play-off – 8 pm
REGIONAL T20 CHAMPIONS
2006 – Guyana
2008 – T&T
2010 – Guyana
2011 – T&T
2012 – T&T
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