Caribbean Premier League

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Caribbean Premier League

West Indies

Countries

Administrator

West Indies Cricket Board(WICB)

Format

Twenty20

First tournament

2013

Tournament format

Group stage and knockout

Number of teams

Current champion

Trinbago Knight Riders(1st title)

Most successful

Trinbago Knight Riders

Jamaica Tallawahs
Barbados Tridents (1 title each)

Most runs

Lendl Simmons (712)

Most wickets

Krishmar Santokie (33)

Website

cplt20.com

2016 Caribbean Premier League

The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20) is an

annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in the Caribbean. It was created in 2013 and replaced
the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in the Caribbean.[1] It is currently

sponsored by Hero MotoCorp and is officially titled the Hero CPL.[2] The inaugural tournament was
won by the Jamaica Tallawahs who defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the final.[3]
Contents
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1History
2Format
3Salary cap
4Teams
5Venues
6Sponsorships
7Tournament results
8Team performances
9References
10External links

History[edit]
Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organized manner in the West Indies in 2006 with the
privately organized Stanford 20/20. The second and last tournament 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 organized 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.[4]
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.[5] On 14 September, the board met to make decisions on the structure and organization
of the Caribbean Twenty20 CPL Schedule in January; to discuss the governance structure of the
board and also discuss the planned commercial Twenty20 league and to finalize 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 December 13, 2012, the WICB announced that they had finalized an
agreement with Ajmal Khan[7] founder of Verus International,a Barbados-based merchant bank, for
the funding of the new franchise-based Twenty20 league to be launched in 2013. 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.[8]
Dates for the tournament were confirmed for the 2013 Caribbean Premier League as 29 July to 26
August. The 2014 and 2015 tournaments are planned to take place from 5 July to 10 August and 21
June to 26 July respectively.[9]

Format[edit]

Six teams competed in the first CPLT20 tournament in 2013 Jamaica Tallawahs, Trinidad and
Tobago Red Steel, Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, St. Lucia Zouks, Antigua
Hawksbills. The CPL T20tournament 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.[10]

Salary cap[edit]
As of 30 December 2015, the Caribbean Premier League's salary cap is $780,000.[11]

Teams[edit]
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.[12] Each team has one local and one
international franchise player.[1] The draft occurred on 5 June 2013