All You Need to Know About the CPL – History, Format, Teams, Results, and More!
All You Need to Know About the CPL: The Caribbean Premier League, or CPL or CPLT20, is a Twenty20 cricket tournament that happens every year in the Caribbean. Cricket West Indies started this League in 2013 to replace the Caribbean Twenty20 as the best Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean. At the moment, Hero MotoCorp is the sponsor for it, so the official name is Hero CPL. The Jamaica Tallawahs won the first tournament. In the final, they beat the Guyana Amazon Warriors.
History
Twenty20 cricket was first played in a methodical way in the West Indies in 2006 when the Stanford 20/20 was put on by a private group. In 2008, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) added the second and final Stanford competition to its schedule. However, the tournament ended in June 2009, when its sponsor, Allen Stanford, was arrested and charged with fraud. As a result, the WICB put together the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament, which was the next organized Twenty20 tournament. The Caribbean Twenty20 was made to fill the space left by the end of the Stanford Twenty20 and to go along with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20, which started less than two months later.
The WICB first talked about plans for the Caribbean Premier League in September 2012, when it said that the board was in the advanced stages of discussions to have a commercial Twenty20 league in the region with an unnamed investor and hoped to make a deal before September 30.
The WICB announced on December 13, 2012, that they had reached a deal with Ajmal Khan, the founder of Verus International, a merchant bank based in Barbados, to fund the new franchise-based Twenty20 league that will start in 2013. The tournament dates for the 2013 Caribbean Premier League have been set for July 29 to August 26. The 2014 tournament ran from July 5 to August 10, and the 2015 tournament ran from June 21 to July 26. The 2016 tournament ran from June 29 to August 7.
Format
CPL
Six teams compete in the CPL T20 tournament, which has a group stage and a knockout stage. During the group stage, each team plays ten games, of which three are at home. This is a strange way for the tournament to be set up because all six teams play their first five games in the same place. Then, the whole tournament moves to a new place for the next five games (and so on). Six stadiums are used, and each one is the home field for one of the teams. There are two semi-finals and a final to decide who wins the tournament at this stage. At Queen’s Park Oval and Brian Lara Stadium, all three elimination playoff games will be played.
The 6ixty
The 6ixty is a T10 league run by West Indies Cricket Board and the Caribbean Premier League. It will be played four times a year, starting with a five-day men’s and women’s tournament in August 2022.
Teams
| Team | Captain | Head coach |
| Barbados Royals | David Miller | Trevor Penney |
| Guyana Amazon Warriors | TBD | Rayon Griffith |
| Jamaica Tallawahs | Rovman Powell | Shivnarine Chanderpaul |
| St Kitts & Nevis Patriots | Dwayne Bravo | Simon Helmot |
| Saint Lucia Kings | Faf du Plessis | Daren Sammy |
| Trinbago Knight Riders | Kieron Pollard | Imran Jan |
| Defunct team | ||
| Antigua Hawksbills | N/A | N/A |
Tournament season and results
| Season | Final | No. ofteams | Player ofthe series | |||
| Venue | Winners | Result | Runners-up | |||
| 2013 | Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | Jamaica Tallawahs129/3 (17.3 overs) | Tallawahs wonby 7 wicketsScorecard | Guyana Amazon Warriors128/5 (20 overs) | 6 | Krishmar Santokie(Guyana Amazon Warriors) |
| 2014 | Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis | Barbados Tridents152/6 (20 overs) | Tridents wonby 8 runs (D/L)Scorecard | Guyana Amazon Warriors107/4 (15.5 overs) | Lendl Simmons(Guyana Amazon Warriors) | |
| 2015 | Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel178/5 (20 overs) | Red Steel wonby 20 runsScorecard | Barbados Tridents158/4 (20 overs) | Dwayne Bravo(Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel) | |
| 2016[19] | Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis | Jamaica Tallawahs95/1 (12.5 overs) | Tallawahs wonby 9 wicketsScorecard | Guyana Amazon Warriors93 (20 overs) | Andre Russell(Jamaica Tallawahs) | |
| 2017 | Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago | Trinbago Knight Riders136/7 (19 overs) | Knight Riders wonby 3 wicketsScorecard | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots135/6 (20 overs) | Chadwick Walton(Guyana Amazon Warriors) | |
| 2018 | Trinbago Knight Riders150/2 (17.3 overs) | Knight Riders wonby 8 wicketsScorecard | Guyana Amazon Warriors147/9 (20 overs) | Colin Munro(Trinbago Knight Riders) | ||
| 2019 | Barbados Tridents171/6 (20 overs) | Tridents wonby 27 runsScorecard | Guyana Amazon Warriors144/9 (20 overs) | Hayden Walsh Jr.(Barbados Tridents) | ||
| 2020 | Trinbago Knight Riders157/2 (18.1 overs) | Knight Riders wonby 8 wicketsScorecard | St Lucia Zouks154 (19.1 overs) | Kieron Pollard(Trinbago Knight Riders) | ||
| 2021 | Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots160/7 (20 overs) | Patriots won by 3 wicketsScorecard | Saint Lucia Kings159/7 (20 overs) | Roston Chase(Saint Lucia Kings) |
Sponsorships
Mobile network in the Caribbean Digicel will be the first global sponsor of the first tournament in 2013 and for many years after that. Dr. Ranjisingh “Bobby” Ramroop’s New GPC Inc., specifically its Limacol brand, is now the title sponsor of the CPL. This is because it bought the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise. In June 2013, Courts said that they would be sponsoring the Caribbean Premier League. El Dorado Rum is an official partner of the first tournament and pays for the Catch of the Match award, which is given to the player in each game who makes the most exciting catch.
Broadcasters
| Territory | Years | Channels & Live Streaming |
| West Indies | 2022 | Announcing Soon |
| Caribbean:- Antigua and BarbudaBahamasBarbadosBelizeDominicaGrenadaGuyanaHaitiJamaicaMontserratSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSurinameTrinidad and Tobago | 2022 | Announcing Soon |
| South Asia:- AfghanistanBangladeshBhutanIndiaMaldivesNepalPakistanSri Lanka | 2022 | Announcing Soon |
Salary caps
The Caribbean Premier League’s salary cap is US$545,500 per season as of June 12, 2020. This is after the COVID-19 pandemic cut the salaries of players by 30%.
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