PROV­I­DENCE, Guyana – Kens­ing­ton Oval will cre­ate his­to­ry in 2026 when they host the fi­nal of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) for the first time it its his­to­ry.

The an­nounce­ment was made by re­cent­ly by the CPL’s chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Pe­te Rus­sell, who al­so re­vealed that Guyana would host its fourth straight CPL fi­nal in 2025.

“Guyana and Bar­ba­dos have been amaz­ing part­ners for CPL over the last 12 years,” stat­ed Rus­sell, “and it is re­al­ly ex­cit­ing to be able to an­nounce that they will be hosts for the fi­nals in 2025 and 2026 re­spec­tive­ly.

“We would like to thank the gov­ern­ments of both Guyana and Bar­ba­dos who have agreed to play host to the con­clu­sion of CPL.”

Bar­ba­dos won the CPL on two oc­ca­sions – in 2014 and 2019 – when they were known as the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents.

Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Mot­t­ley wel­comed the news that ‘The Mec­ca’ would be host­ing its first-ever CPL fi­nal.

“I am so hap­py to say that the CPL fi­nals 2026 will be in Bridgetown at Kens­ing­ton Oval,” Mot­t­ley said.

Since the in­au­gur­al CPL in 2013, Trinidad has staged the fi­nal on six oc­ca­sions—twice at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain (2013 and 2015) and four times at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba (2017-2020).

The on­ly oth­er Caribbean host na­tion was Saint Kitts and Nevis, who held the CPL fi­nal at Warn­er Park in Bas­seterre in 2014, 2016, and 2021.

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