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Thursday, July 24, 2025

CPL wants the best talent

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Or­gan­is­ers of the now pop­u­lar Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL)?T20 tour­na­ment have been forced to push for a late start next year, to en­sure that some of the best play­ers are avail­able to vis­it the Caribbean and play.

This was re­vealed by COO of the CPL Pe­te Rus­sell at the Queen's Park Oval yes­ter­day.

He said the start will take place in ear­ly Au­gust and ends in the first week of Sep­tem­ber.

This means that al­though some of the top play­ers across the world can come to play, the West In­dies Test crick­eters who play the T20 for­mat will miss out, as the West In­dies will be on tour of Eng­land from ear­ly Au­gust.

Ac­cord­ing to Rus­sell: "We start in ear­ly Au­gust and ends in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber.

"We will have the same teams and we will play a to­tal of 34 match­es, just as we had this past year. Where we start and where the fi­nals are to be played is still to be worked out."

Rus­sell said the CPL would love to have the fi­nals in T&T. "We would love for T&T to host the fi­nals be­cause it is our num­ber one venue. We love the en­er­gy of the fi­nals here with the packed ground and stuff, so that will be great."

Rus­sell said that of­fi­cials of the CPL have al­ready vis­it­ed the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um in Tarou­ba and talks will be held as to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of host­ing match­es at the venue.

The T&T Guardian ex­clu­sive­ly re­port­ed that the open­ing cer­e­monies of the 2017 CPL will take place at the south­ern venue.

"It is great for Trinidad to have an­oth­er first class venue to play crick­et. We have had a look at the sta­di­um and we have no­ticed a dra­mat­ic im­prove­ment in the amount of work done there.

"What we saw is a state of the art fa­cil­i­ty and we will def­i­nite­ly look in­to this venue, it is go­ing to be in­ter­est­ing to see how it pans out. We are ex­cit­ed by the prospect and a venue with (Bri­an) Lara's name at­tached to it has to be high qual­i­ty."

Rus­sell al­so added that the CPL will def­i­nite­ly head to the Unit­ed States.

"We are def­i­nite­ly go­ing back to US be­cause it was huge­ly suc­cess­ful. We had 30,000 fans at­tend­ing the six games there and this was a record for crick­et at Broward. It is bril­liant for the peo­ple of Amer­i­ca as they showed by their at­ten­dance that they want crick­et there."

Rus­sell said that CPL has en­joyed their four years in the Caribbean and is look­ing for­ward to even bet­ter times.

"We want to ben­e­fit the econ­o­my fi­nan­cial­ly and al­so help to build West In­dies crick­et at the same time.

"We have a very good tour­na­ment here that can stand up with the rest in the world and as a mat­ter of fact, out­side of IPL, the CPL at­tracts the best play­ers in the world. We start with great tal­ent here in the West In­dies and add some world class play­ers from out­side."


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