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Friday, July 11, 2025

King's XI Punjab takes control of Zouks

by

Vinode Mamchan
1971 days ago
20200218
King’s Punjab XI owner Mohit Burman, left, joins St  Lucian Prime Minister Allan Chastanet and CPL Chief Operating Officer (COO) Pete Russell at the announcement of the King's XI’s purchase of the St Lucia Zouksn Monday.

King’s Punjab XI owner Mohit Burman, left, joins St Lucian Prime Minister Allan Chastanet and CPL Chief Operating Officer (COO) Pete Russell at the announcement of the King's XI’s purchase of the St Lucia Zouksn Monday.

An­oth­er In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) team has tak­en con­trol of a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fran­chise with the an­nounce­ment Mon­day that the King's XI Pun­jab has ac­quired the St Lu­cia Zouks.

This was re­vealed by CPL Chief Op­er­a­tions Of­fi­cer (COO) Pe­te Rus­sell at the San­dals Grande St. Lu­cia Re­sort and Spa in Gros Islet.

King's XI Pun­jab, who have played every edi­tion of the 11 IPL sea­sons, will now fol­low in the foot­steps of the own­ers of the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR), who pur­chased the T&T Red Steel three years ago be­fore nam­ing the fran­chise the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers.

Own­er of the fran­chise Mo­hit Bur­man and his Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) Satish Menon both made the long jour­ney from In­dia to St Lu­cia for Mon­day's launch and they are now look­ing for­ward to tak­ing the team to bet­ter days.

The Zouks have not en­joyed the best of re­sults over the past few sea­sons but with the added in­vest­ment they will be ex­posed to bet­ter play­ers and sup­port staff.

"We were en­cour­aged by what we saw hap­pen in Trinidad with the KKR and told our­selves that as we are look­ing to ex­pand this will be work­able," Bur­man told the me­dia.

"We are a strong fran­chise and we have played every edi­tion of the IPL. We will bring a lot of ex­per­tise to the set up at the Zouks and we are hop­ing to re­al­ly see an im­prove­ment and to as­sist in the over­all de­vel­op­ment of CPL and West In­dies."

Asked if there will be a change in the name of the team, Bur­man said: "I did have a dis­cus­sion with the Prime Min­is­ter (Al­lan Chas­tanet) and I told him we can look at it and if for sen­ti­men­tal rea­sons and sup­port we need to leave the name we will. How­ev­er, we have not made a de­ci­sion on that yet and we will see what is the best fit as we move for­ward."

St Lu­cia PM Al­lan Chas­tanet, who was present at the event, said this was great news for his coun­try, adding he was look­ing to gain more from the part­ner­ship.

"I have told Mo­hit that we will be look­ing be­yond crick­et and look­ing to bet­ter ties with In­dia," Chas­tanet said.

"We are grate­ful for what he has done in terms of his in­vest­ment in our crick­et team and we are look­ing for­ward to a num­ber of St Lu­cian's ben­e­fit­ing. The CPL has been bril­liant for the de­vel­op­ment of our coun­try as it mar­kets us to the world and we want to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing them."

Rus­sell said this was fan­tas­tic news for the tour­na­ment, as they are work­ing hard to take it to the next lev­el.

"With this in­vest­ment, it al­ways helps but it does not mean that we will not be in­vest­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly still in the tour­na­ment. The peo­ple of this love­ly coun­try will see CPL do­ing more for them now with this new de­vel­op­ment.

"We are hap­py to have Mo­hit and his group on board and I am sure they will do well for the team and the tour­na­ment. We at CPL will con­tin­ue work­ing hard to mar­ket this tour­na­ment and bring more to the peo­ple of the Caribbean."

Rus­sell said the team could have been sold last year but the CPL de­cid­ed to wait a bit longer.

"We could have sold the team last year but we ad­sorbed the ex­pens­es and wait­ed for the right own­ers and now that mo­ment has come."


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