South African play­ers Tabraiz Sham­si and Rassie Van der Dussen will not fea­ture in this year’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) T20 tour­na­ment this year.

Less than 24 hours af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley claimed that some­one im­per­son­at­ed some­one from the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer’s of­fice and com­mu­ni­cat­ed false in­for­ma­tion to the or­gan­is­ers of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and two days af­ter his ex­pla­na­tion on the de­ci­sion for T&T to host the tour­na­ment, part­ly be­ing an eco­nom­ic de­ci­sion as de­trac­tors took is­sue with play­ers be­ing al­lowed to en­ter the coun­try, comes an­oth­er turn.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Sham­fa Cud­joe says mem­bers of the Caribbean Pre­mier League con­tin­gent will not be treat­ed any dif­fer­ent­ly if any­one tests pos­i­tive for COVID-19 dur­ing their stay in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to gen­er­ate a new rev­enue stream that has dried up dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic by host­ing the 2020 edi­tion of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said yes­ter­day.

Caribbean Pre­mier League stake­hold­ers will have to ad­here to strict COVID-19 guide­lines dur­ing the 2020 edi­tion of the event here in Trinidad and To­ba­go next month, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Sham­fa Cud­joe said yes­ter­day.

The Gov­ern­ment's Fi­nance & Gen­er­al Pur­pos­es Com­mit­tee met yes­ter­day to pre­pare their fi­nal re­port on the fi­nan­cial as­pects of host­ing the en­tire Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) tour­na­ment and the cab­i­net will now fi­nal­ly sit on it to give fi­nal ap­proval.

Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents skip­per Ja­son Hold­er may have in­ad­ver­tent­ly giv­en Trinidad and To­ba­go-born coach Phil Sim­mons a great en­dorse­ment for the West In­dies job dur­ing the team’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League ti­tle cel­e­bra­tions at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my on Sat­ur­day night.

Sev­en play­ers from the West In­dies and four over­seas crick­eters have been named to the 2019m Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) All-Stars team which was se­lect­ed on Fri­day by Tom Moody, CPL’s Di­rec­tor – In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et, along with the com­men­tary team – Mark Butch­er, Dan­ny Mor­ri­son, Dirk Nannes, Ian Bish­op and Daren Gan­ga.

Courts Glad­i­a­tor won the sec­ond match of the Women's T10 se­ries or­gan­ised by Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) by three runs at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers skip­per Kieron Pol­lard's dreams of lead­ing his home side to a hat-trick of Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League ti­tles in his first sea­son in charge im­plod­ed on Thurs­day night as the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents pulled off a 12-run vic­to­ry to book their spot in Sat­ur­day's fi­nal against the un­beat­en Guyana Ama­zon War­riors.

They have at­tend­ed a Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League wed­ding four times be­fore but as brides­maids. How­ev­er, on Sat­ur­day, the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors will be hop­ing they are the ones throw­ing the bou­quet when they bat­tle the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents in the grand fi­nale at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, from 5 pm.

It has been a long hard jour­ney, even pass­ing every day near the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, which is two min­utes from his home, know­ing that his team played four times there in a Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League fi­nal and came up short.