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Thursday, July 24, 2025

CPL looks to Canada

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The open­ing round of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) T20 tour­na­ment will be head­ing to Toron­to, Cana­da, if the or­gan­is­ers have their way.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that the or­gan­is­ers of the tour­na­ment Verus In­ter­na­tion­al are keen on stag­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny, as well as the first round of match­es in Toron­to.

A source said the or­gan­is­ers are anx­ious to get crick­et in­to the North Amer­i­can mar­ket so they are tak­ing their prod­uct to that coun­try in or­der to get the peo­ple ex­cit­ed.

"At the end of the day this is big busi­ness, and af­ter the suc­cess­ful open­ing last year, the or­gan­is­ers want to tap in­to the North Amer­i­can mar­ket. If they can get the clubs and crick­et of­fi­cials in Cana­da, ex­cit­ed about their prod­uct, then we may say a fran­chise com­ing out of Cana­da and play­ing in this league.

"This is a good move be­cause it shows that the or­gan­is­ers are think­ing about grow­ing the league and not just sit­ting on their lau­rels af­ter a suc­cess­ful first year."

It is un­der­stood that they were ini­tial­ly look­ing at Mi­a­mi but switched to Cana­da be­cause of the ear­ly in­ter­est they are get­ting from that coun­try. If they go through with this, the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and three match­es will be played in Cana­da. All the six fran­chis­es, Red Steel, Ama­zon War­riors, Hawks­bills, Zouks, Tallawahs and Tri­dents will make the trip across and will each play on game. They re­turn to the Caribbean for the rest of the tour­na­ment.

This year's tour­na­ment will be played from Ju­ly 5 to Au­gust 8. The or­gan­is­ers are hop­ing the fran­chis­es will be able to at­tract top name crick­eters.

Cur­rent­ly the fran­chis­es are meet­ing with com­mer­cial man­ag­er of the CPL, Jamie Stew­art who is mak­ing the rounds of the Caribbean.

On Fri­day, he was in T&T meet­ing with the stake­hold­ers here and cur­rent­ly he is in Guyana, where he will meet with spon­sors and of­fi­cials of the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors–where he is ex­pect­ed to lay out Verus plans for the new sea­son.


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