Caribbean Premier League

Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organised manner in the West Indies in 2006 with the privately organised Stanford 20/20. The second and last edition of the Stanford competition was officially made part of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) calendar in 2008, after which the tournament ended when its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009. The next organised Twenty20 competition came about with the creation of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament by the WICB. The Caribbean Twenty20 was created to fill the gap left by the end of the Stanford 20/20 and to coincide with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which started less than two months after. The top domestic team from the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament qualified for the Champions League as the sole representative of the West Indies.[5]

The WICB first announced the plans for the Caribbean Premier League in September 2012 when it was revealed 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 conclude a deal before 30 September.[6] On 14 September, the board met to make decisions on the structure and organisation of the Caribbean Twenty20 CPL Schedule in January;[7] to discuss the governance structure of the board and also discuss the planned commercial Twenty20 league and to finalise its structure. The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) were also to be brought in to discuss issues pertaining to players in relation to the planned T20 league.[6] On 13 December 2012, the WICB announced that they had finalised an agreement with Ajmal Khan[8] founder of Verus International, a Barbados-based merchant bank, for the funding of the new franchise-based Twenty20 league to be launched in 2013.[9] It was then expected that the new Caribbean Premier League was likely to comprise six Caribbean city-based franchises as opposed to the current territorial set-up with the majority of the players are to come from the West Indies. As part of the agreement, the WICB will receive additional funding from Verus International for additional retainer contracts for players in addition to the 20 annual retainer contracts the board currently funds.[10]

Dates for the tournament were confirmed for the 2013 Caribbean Premier League as 29 July to 26 August. The 2014 and 2015 tournaments took place between 5 July to 10 August and 21 June to 26 July respectively and the 2016 tournament took place between 29 June to 7 August.[11]

The CPL T20 tournament is played between six teams and is divided into a group stage and a knockout stage. In the group stage, the teams each play ten matches overall, three of which are at home. This unusual format occurs because all six teams are co-located at a single playing site for five sequential matches of the tourney, then the whole tournament moves to a new location for five more games (and so on). Six stadiums are used (see Venues below), each a home field for one of the teams. The playoff stage includes two semi-finals and a final to determine the winner of the tournament. All three of the elimination playoff games will be played at Queen's Park Oval and Brian Lara Stadium .[12]

The tournament includes six franchises with 15 contracted players each, including a maximum of five international players and four players under the age of 23.[13] Each team has one local and one international franchise player.[14]

Team	Captain	Head coach
Barbados Tridents	Jason Holder	Trevor Penney
Guyana Amazon Warriors	Chris Green	Johan Botha
Jamaica Tallawahs	Rovman Powell	Floyd Reifer
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots	Rayad Emrit	Mark O'Donnell
St Lucia Zouks	Daren Sammy	Andy Flower
Trinbago Knight Riders	Kieron Pollard	Brendon McCullum
Defunct team
Antigua Hawksbills	N/A	N/A

Venues

While the majority of venues are on Caribbean islands that form part of the West Indies cricket team, two venues are on the mainland of the Americas: one in Florida, and one in Guyana on the South American mainland, although culturally Guyana is regarded as a Caribbean country.

Jamaica	Saint Kitts	Saint Lucia	United States
Jamaica Tallawahs	St Kitts & Nevis Patriots	St Lucia Stars	Jamaica Tallawahs
Sabina Park	Warner Park	Darren Sammy Stadium	Central Broward Regional Park
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 20,000
Trinidad	Trinidad	Barbados	Guyana
Trinbago Knight Riders		Barbados Tridents	Guyana Amazon Warriors
Queen's Park Oval	Brian Lara Stadium	Kensington Oval	Providence Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 15,000

Lauderhill

Saint Kitts

Saint Lucia

Barbados

Jamaica

Trinidad

Venues
Not shown: Guyana

Out of the six teams that have played in the Caribbean Premier League since its inception, one team has won the competition four times, two teams has won the competition twice.Trinbago Knight Riders are the most successful team in the history of Caribbean Premier League.The Barbados Tridents have won two titles,[15] where the Jamaica Tallawahs also have won two titles.[16]The current champions are the Trinbago Knight Riders who defeated St Lucia Zouks in the final of 2020 Season to secure their fourth CPL title and winning back-to-back championships.[17]

CPL season result[18]

Season	Final				No. of teams	Player of the series
	Venue	Winners	Result	Runners-up
2013	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica Tallawahs 129 for 3 (17.3 overs)	Tallawahs won by 7 wickets Scorecard	Guyana Amazon Warriors 128 for 5 (20 overs)	6	Krishmar Santokie (Guyana Amazon Warriors)
2014	Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis	Barbados Tridents 152 for 6 (20 overs)	Tridents won by 8 runs (D/L) Scorecard	Guyana Amazon Warriors 107 for 4 (15.5 overs)		Lendl Simmons (Guyana Amazon Warriors)
2015	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel 178 for 5 (20 overs)	Red Steel won by 20 runs Scorecard	Barbados Tridents 158 for 4 (20 overs)		Dwayne Bravo (Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel)
2016[19]	Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis	Jamaica Tallawahs 95 for 1 (12.5 overs)	Tallawahs won by 9 wickets Scorecard	Guyana Amazon Warriors 93 all out (20 overs)		Andre Russell (Jamaica Tallawahs)
2017	Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago	Trinbago Knight Riders 136 for 7 (19 overs)	Knight Riders won by 3 wickets Scorecard	St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 135 for 6 (20 overs)		Chadwick Walton (Guyana Amazon Warriors)
2018		Trinbago Knight Riders 150 for 2 (17.3 overs)	Knight Riders won by 8 wickets Scorecard	Guyana Amazon Warriors 147 for 9 (20 overs)		Colin Munro (Trinbago Knight Riders)
2019		Barbados Tridents 171 for 6 (20 overs)	Tridents won by 27 runs Scorecard	Guyana Amazon Warriors 144 for 9 (20 overs)		Hayden Walsh Jr. (Barbados Tridents)
2020		Trinbago Knight Riders 157 for 2 (18.1 overs)	Knight Riders won by 8 wickets Scorecard	St Lucia Zouks 154 all out (19.1 overs)		Kieron Pollard (Trinbago Knight Riders)

Teams' performances

Season (No. of teams)	2013 (6)	2014 (6)	2015 (6)	2016 (6)	2017 (6)	2018 (6)	2019 (6)	2020 (6)
Antigua Hawksbills	5th	6th	Defunct
Barbados Tridents	3rd	W	R	5th		6th	W	5th
Guyana Amazon Warriors	R		3rd	R	3rd	R		3rd
Jamaica Tallawahs	W	3rd	4th	W	4th		6th	4th
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots	DNP		6th		R	3rd	4th	6th
St Lucia Zouks	6th	5th		4th	6th	5th		R
Trinbago Knight Riders	4th		W	3rd	W		3rd	W

Caribbean mobile network Digicel was named as the first global sponsor for the inaugural 2013 tournament and beyond in a multi-year deal.[20] As previous sponsors of the West Indies cricket team and the Digicel Caribbean Cup the brand has considerable experience with sponsoring cricket and other sporting events throughout the Caribbean. "The CPL is a perfect fit for Digicel. We’re huge fans of West Indies cricket and this is a great opportunity for us to invest not only in what will be an amazing event, but also in the young cricketers who will benefit from around the region," stated Digicel Group Marketing Operations Director Kieran Foley.[21]

Following the acquisition of the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise owner, Dr. Ranjisingh ’Bobby’ Ramroop's New GPC Inc, specifically its Limacol brand, has assumed the title sponsorship of the CPL.[3]

In June 2013 Courts announced their sponsorship of the Caribbean Premier League "CPL's partnership with Courts is a very strategic and beneficial one to both parties, and we are thrilled about the possibilities that exist for us from a marketing perspective," said CPL CEO Damien O’ Donohoe. "Combining our advertising and marketing programmes with that of Courts will heighten the awareness of CPL across the region, and increase fan support, which will put people in the stands at matches and customers in the aisles of Courts."[22]

El Dorado Rum has been named as an official partner of the inaugural tournament, and sponsors the tournament's Catch of the Match award, which goes to one player in each game who makes a thrilling catch.[23]

As of 30 December 2015, the Caribbean Premier League's salary cap is US$1,000,000 per season. This was an increase implemented for the 2016 draft, from the previous cap of US$600,000.[24]

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