CPL has an­nounced the launch­ing of an in­au­gur­al women’s tour­na­ment that will co­in­cide with the 10th edi­tion of the men’s tour­na­ment be­gin­ning on Au­gust 30th.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease…

The Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) have con­firmed that this year’s CPL event will fea­ture a women’s tour­na­ment with three fran­chise teams com­pet­ing for the first Women’s CPL (WC­PL) ti­tle. The three teams will show­case the best women’s crick­eters from across the Caribbean with over­seas stars round­ing out the teams.

The three teams who will com­pete in the in­au­gur­al WC­PL will be Bar­ba­dos Roy­als, Guyana Ama­zon War­riors and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers. 

The women’s tour­na­ment will take place dur­ing the men’s event in­side the Hero CPL tour­na­ment win­dow which this year will run from 30 Au­gust and 30 Sep­tem­ber.

The 2022 tour­na­ment will be cel­e­brat­ing 10 years of the Biggest Par­ty in Sport and en­ters its 10th sea­son off the back of a high­ly suc­cess­ful 2021, with over half a bil­lion view­ers tun­ing in for the sec­ond suc­ces­sive year.

Ricky Sker­ritt, CWI Pres­i­dent com­ment­ed: “In­creas­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ties for West In­di­an women and girls to get in­volved in crick­et is one of CWI’s strate­gic pri­or­i­ties, and we are de­light­ed that we have been able to part­ner with CPL to fur­ther the ex­pan­sion plans that we had first un­veiled in 2019 pri­or to the ar­rival of the Covid Pan­dem­ic. We are con­fi­dent that all CPL women’s games will be high­ly com­pet­i­tive and will add qual­i­ty en­ter­tain­ment to our fans in the re­gion and around the world.”  

Hero CPL will be played across more coun­tries this year, with three Caribbean coun­tries be­ing se­lect­ed for the group stages and fourth venue be­ing cho­sen for the fi­nals.  CPL an­tic­i­pates that this four-venue struc­ture could be­come the norm for fu­ture sea­sons.  

Pe­te Rus­sell, Hero CPL’s CEO, said: “The ad­di­tion of a women’s event to the CPL is some­thing that has been an am­bi­tion for a long time and we are very pleased that it has be­come a re­al­i­ty. We would like to thank CWI for work­ing with us to make this hap­pen. The Women’s T10 Chal­lenge which took place dur­ing the 2019 CPL was a huge suc­cess and we are look­ing for­ward to the next step for­ward.

“We are very pleased to con­firm the dates for the 2022 tour­na­ment and with trav­el around the world and re­gion be­com­ing eas­i­er CPL will be able to vis­it more than one coun­try this year, so fans can en­joy CPL in per­son once again.” 

CWI has con­firmed that a win­dow has been cre­at­ed in an oth­er­wise very busy in­ter­na­tion­al sched­ule so that all se­lect­ed West In­dies play­ers will be avail­able for this year’s Men’s and Women’s CPL tour­na­ments.