The 2019 Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has got­ten a re­fresh­er with An­gos­tu­ra Lemon Lime and Bit­ters (LLB) sign­ing on as the tour­na­ment’s of­fi­cial re­fresh­er part­ner.

The three-year deal was signed on Wednes­day but the de­tails of the agree­ment re­main undis­closed.

Speak­ing at the launch, An­gos­tu­ra’s ex­ec­u­tive man­ag­er for cor­po­rate ser­vices and mar­ket­ing Rahim Mo­hammed said the part­ner­ship will ben­e­fit the com­mu­ni­ties of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

He said, “Every­thing we do, we keep our com­mu­ni­ty in mind so through CPL we will be run­ning a crick­et camp for the kids in the com­mu­ni­ty with some top-class crick­eters who will be join­ing us in the first week of Sep­tem­ber.”

With a num­ber of com­mer­cial part­ners on board with CPL, the act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of An­gos­tu­ra Ian Forbes says the bev­er­age com­pa­ny will pro­vide a unique ex­pe­ri­ence for the tour­na­ment and by ex­ten­sion the fans.

“We in­tend to bring fun, ex­cite­ment and thirst-quench­ing re­fresh­ment to crick­et fans through­out the re­gion and look for­ward to a long and mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial as­so­ci­a­tion with the tour­na­ment,” said Forbes.

The part­ner­ship comes as An­gos­tu­ra cel­e­brates its 195th an­niver­sary. The CPL’s Aus­tralian com­mer­cial di­rec­tor, Jamie Stew­art, re­called how grow­ing up in Perth in the 1970s, LLB was an ex­treme­ly pop­u­lar drink mixed by bar­tenders around the coun­try. “It is a true plea­sure all these years lat­er to wel­come this tremen­dous com­pa­ny and its sig­na­ture of­fer­ing An­gos­tu­ra Lemon Lime and Bit­ters as the “Re­fresh­ment Part­ner” of CPL,” Stew­art said.

The 2019 CPL bowls off on Sep­tem­ber 4 at the Queens Park Oval when the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers takes on the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots from 7pm in the tour­na­ment open­er.