The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and Cricket West Indies (CWI) have confirmed that this 12 months’s CPL occasion will function a ladies’s event with three franchise groups competing for the primary Ladies’s CPL (WCPL) title.
The three groups will showcase the very best ladies’s cricketers from throughout the Caribbean with abroad stars rounding out the groups.
The three groups who will compete within the inaugural WCPL might be Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders. These groups will see a mix of native West Indian expertise and abroad stars
The ladies’s event will happen throughout the males’s occasion contained in the Hero CPL event window which this 12 months will run from 30 August and 30 September.
The 2022 event might be celebrating 10 years of the Largest Celebration in Sport and enters its tenth season off the again of a extremely profitable 2021, with over half a billion viewers tuning in for the second successive 12 months.
Ricky Skerritt, CWI President commented: “Rising the alternatives for West Indian ladies and ladies to become involved in cricket is one in every of CWI’s strategic priorities, and we’re delighted that we’ve been in a position to associate with CPL to additional the enlargement plans that we had first unveiled in 2019 previous to the arrival of the Covid Pandemic.
“We’re assured that each one CPL ladies’s video games might be extremely aggressive and can add high quality leisure to our followers within the area and all over the world.”
Hero CPL might be performed throughout extra international locations this 12 months, with three Caribbean international locations being chosen for the group levels and fourth venue being chosen for the finals. CPL anticipates that this four-venue construction might turn into the norm for future seasons.
Pete Russell, Hero CPL’s CEO, stated: “The addition of a ladies’s occasion to the CPL is one thing that has been an ambition for a very long time and we’re more than happy that it has turn into a actuality. We want to thank CWI for working with us to make this occur.
“The Ladies’s T10 Problem which passed off throughout the 2019 CPL was an enormous success and we’re wanting ahead to the subsequent step ahead.
“We’re more than happy to substantiate the dates for the 2022 event and with journey all over the world and area turning into simpler CPL will be capable of go to multiple nation this 12 months, so followers can get pleasure from CPL in particular person as soon as once more.”
CWI has confirmed {that a} window has been created in an in any other case very busy worldwide schedule so that each one chosen West Indies gamers might be accessible for this 12 months’s Males’s and Ladies’s CPL tournaments.
What’s the Hero Caribbean Premier League?
First began in 2013, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is a franchise-based T20 format cricket event that mixes two of probably the most compelling points of Caribbean life – dramatic cricket and a vibrant Carnival environment.
The printed and digital viewership handed 500 million in each the 2020 and 2021 seasons to make it one of the vital watched leagues in world cricket.
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots are the present Hero CPL champions and the opposite competing groups are Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, Saint Lucia Kings and Trinbago Knight Riders. The 2022 event will happen from 30 August to 30 September.
Go to www.cplt20.com for extra info.
