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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

PM Row­ley to re­ceive pro­pos­al

CPL may play in T&T only

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Vinode Mamchan
1888 days ago
20200528
Reiging champions of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, Barbados Tridents.

Reiging champions of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, Barbados Tridents.

Nicholas Bhajan

The 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Twen­ty20 (T20) Tour­na­ment is like­ly to be played in T&T sole­ly and is card­ed to be­gin in Au­gust as was orig­i­nal­ly stat­ed.

Guardian Me­dia Sports has been re­li­ably in­formed that the CPL will present a pro­pos­al to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and his cab­i­net for T&T’s con­sid­er­a­tion as host for the eighth edi­tion.

The CPL is propos­ing to play four match­es a day in T&T, two at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain and two at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do. The fi­nal of the tour­na­ment was al­ways card­ed for T&T, as has been the case for the last two edi­tions.

The CPL or­gan­is­ers are hop­ing to get the tour­na­ment start­ed on Au­gust 19 with the fi­nal on Sep­tem­ber 26. Among the pro­pos­als is to have the six teams and sup­port staff all housed at the Hilton Trinidad for the pe­ri­od of the tour­na­ment. There are ex­pect­ed to be 34 match­es played.

With the Caribbean not bad­ly af­fect­ed by the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic, the tour­na­ment may well con­tain on­ly re­gion­al play­ers and no in­ter­na­tion­als, ac­cord­ing to a well-placed source.

Orig­i­nal­ly CPL hint­ed that they may have played the tour­na­ment in two or three coun­tries. There has been a change of heart and T&T has now been giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take the en­tire tour­na­ment.

Dr Row­ley and the cab­i­net will have to de­cide whether it is safe to open the bor­ders in time for the tour­na­ment and how will they treat with play­ers com­ing from across the re­gion in­to this coun­try? The open­ing of the bor­ders was list­ed as last on the agen­da by the gov­ern­ment.

The gov­ern­ment will al­so have to weigh the fact that stag­ing the en­tire CPL in T&T will be an eco­nom­ic boost to the coun­try, es­pe­cial­ly in this try­ing fi­nan­cial times.

A source close to the sit­u­a­tion told Guardian Me­dia Sports: "CPL is propos­ing to play the en­tire tour­na­ment in Trinidad and the Prime Min­is­ter will get the pro­pos­al for con­sid­er­a­tion. Even if the tour­na­ment can't get off on Au­gust the 19, they are fine with get­ting it on the way the fol­low­ing week. There are some se­ri­ous mat­ters to con­sid­er but Trinidad has dealt with the virus sit­u­a­tion bril­liant­ly and has the ca­pa­bil­i­ty of stag­ing the en­tire tour­na­ment."

In ad­di­tion to be­ing an eco­nom­ic shot in the arm for T&T, the own­ers of the tour­na­ment al­so stand to get fi­nan­cial ease up by host­ing the tour­na­ment in just one coun­try. The lo­gis­tics of host­ing the tour­na­ment among six Caribbean coun­tries have been test­ing since the in­cep­tion of the tour­na­ment in 2013.

CPL is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce the date for the draft once they get the go-ahead that the tour­na­ment is tak­ing place. So far all six fran­chise teams have an­nounced their Caribbean re­ten­tions.

CARIBBEAN PLAY­ERS RE­TAINED FOR CPL 2020

TKR: Dwayne Bra­vo, Kieron Pol­lard, Sunil Nar­ine, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Lendl Sim­mons, Khary Pierre, Jay­den Seales, Amir Jan­goo, Tion Web­ster, Akeal Ho­sein.

Tallawahs: An­dre Rus­sell, Rov­man Pow­ell, Os­hane Thomas, Chad­wick Wal­ton.

Zouks: Chris Gayle, Daren Sam­my, An­dre Fletch­er, Kesrick Williams, Obed Mc­Coy, Rah­keem Corn­wall, Ki­mani Melius, Kavem Hodge.

Ama­zon War­riors: Nicholas Pooran, Shim­ron Het­my­er, Bran­don King, Keemo Paul, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj, Kevin Sin­clair, Odean Smith, An­tho­ny Bram­ble.

Pa­tri­ots: Evin Lewis, Fabi­an Allen, Shel­don Cot­trell, De­nesh Ramdin, Rayad Em­rit, Alzarri Joseph, Do­minic Drakes.

Tri­dents: Ja­son Hold­er, John­son Charles, Shai Hope, Hay­den Walsh Jr, Ash­ley Nurse, Jonathan Carter, Ray­mon Reifer, Ny­eem Young, Justin Greaves.


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