CPL 2023 to be performed in 5 Caribbean international locations

The 2023 season of the CPL will probably be performed throughout 5 international locations within the Caribbean from August 17 to September 24.

Compared to the 5 venues that hosted matches final season throughout 4 international locations – there have been two venues in Trinidad & Tobago – this 12 months’s CPL will even have matches performed in Barbados; the island wasn’t within the schedule final time.

The CPL will begin with defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs taking over St Lucia Kings in Saint Lucia earlier than the motion strikes to St Kitts & Nevis, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago, earlier than concluding in Guyana. All venues will host six video games every. The venues in Trinidad & Tobago are but to be named, whereas there will probably be no video games in Jamaica this time too.

The Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia will kick-off the primary leg of matches, from August 16 to twenty, with the house facet taking part in 4 of the six video games. Warner Park in St Kitts & Nevis would be the subsequent venue for the video games from August 23 to 27, with 4 matches for the house crew – St Kitts & Nevis Patriots – there.

Barbados’ Kensington Oval will host the following leg, for the primary time since 2019, from August 30 to September 3, with house facet Barbados Royals taking part in 4 of the matches. The match will then transfer to Trinidad & Tobago for video games from September 5 to 10, once more with 4 matches for the house crew, Trinbago Knight Riders.

Guyana will host the ultimate leg from September 13 to 24, together with the playoffs and the ultimate from September 19 to 24.

“We are very pleased that the tournament will be staged in five countries in 2023,” Pete Russell, the CPL CEO, mentioned in an announcement. “As ever, the CPL is a chance for fans across the region and around the world to enjoy world class cricket. And for the players from the Caribbean it is an opportunity to showcase their skills and further their careers.”

For the third consecutive 12 months, the CPL will overlap with the Hundred, the 100-balls-a-side competitors in England that runs from August 1 to August 27 this 12 months. At this stage, Sunil Narine is the one West Indian males’s participant who will probably be concerned in each competitions; he’s anticipated to mess around 5 video games for Oval Invincibles earlier than leaving for the CPL.