Talk had been cir­cu­lat­ing that the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) were look­ing to snap-up wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Nico­las Pooran for this year's Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Twen­ty20 (T20) Tour­na­ment but it was un­found­ed as the T&T-born crick­eter re­mains with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors, ho­n­our­ing the sec­ond year of his three-year con­tract.

With De­nesh Ramdin mov­ing from the TKR to the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots, it was ru­moured that Pooran might have been in the sights of the TKR man­age­ment but he has stayed with the War­riors.

Last year's beat­en fi­nal­ists yes­ter­day an­nounced the West In­di­an play­ers they will be re­tain­ing for the tour­na­ment in­clud­ing six lo­cal Guyanese play­ers, three re­gion­al West In­di­an play­ers and they have signed a Guyanese play­er as one of their Emerg­ing West In­dies play­ers ahead of the CPL draft.  

The lo­cal and re­gion­al play­ers re­tained and signed by the fran­chise for this year's CPL are Pooran, Shim­ron Het­my­er, Bran­don King, Keemo Paul, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj, Kevin Sin­clair, Odean Smith and An­tho­ny Bram­ble.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­ten­tions and sign­ings will be an­nounced at a lat­er date. This sea­son, teams can re­tain as many play­ers from their 2019 squads as they wish. They could al­so trans­fer play­ers to oth­er teams and sign emerg­ing play­ers.