The Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nals will be host­ed by Guyana for the next three years, start­ing in 2022. This is the first time the Hero CPL fi­nal will be held in Guyana and this long-term stag­ing agree­ment will see the cul­mi­na­tion of the tour­na­ment al­so tak­ing place in Guyana in 2023 and 2024.

This sea­son, Guyana will host sev­en group games, three knock­out match­es and the Hero CPL fi­nal which will take place on Fri­day 30 Sep­tem­ber at The Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Prov­i­dence.

The Hero CPL fi­nal will be the cli­max of fes­tiv­i­ties sur­round­ing these games tak­ing place in Guyana. The Gov­ern­ment of Guyana in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the lo­cal pri­vate sec­tor will al­so stage two weeks of events which will form a Crick­et Car­ni­val. This Car­ni­val will cel­e­brate the best that Guyana was to of­fer, show­cas­ing the mu­sic, food and cul­ture of this vi­brant and fas­ci­nat­ing coun­try.

Over the pre­vi­ous nine sea­sons of Hero CPL, there has been a mas­sive sup­port for the tour­na­ment from Guyanese fans and the tour­na­ment is ex­pect­ing sig­nif­i­cant ex­cite­ment at the prospect of these huge­ly im­por­tant match­es tak­ing place in the coun­try.

Guyana’s econ­o­my is grow­ing rapid­ly, and the coun­try has a fan­tas­tic rep­u­ta­tion as a des­ti­na­tion for tourists look­ing for un­spoiled na­ture. The Hero CPL fi­nals will fur­ther show­case this won­der­ful coun­try to a mas­sive glob­al au­di­ence – the to­tal view­er­ship for Hero CPL passed 500mil­lion in both 2020 and 2021.

Pe­te Rus­sell, Hero CPL’s CEO, said: “We are blessed with amaz­ing fans across the Caribbean, and this is very clear when­ev­er we vis­it Guyana where the at­mos­phere at Prov­i­dence is elec­tric. The idea of hav­ing the Hero CPL fi­nal in front of this won­der­ful crowd of pas­sion­ate and knowl­edge­able crick­et fans is a mouth­wa­ter­ing prospect. We are very grate­ful to have such a pos­i­tive re­la­tion­ship with the gov­ern­ment and crick­et au­thor­i­ties in Guyana and we thank them for help­ing us come to this huge­ly ex­cit­ing agree­ment.”

His Ex­cel­len­cy Dr Mo­ham­mad Ir­faan Ali, Pres­i­dent of the Co-op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana, said: “Crick­et is much more than a game for us in Guyana, it is a pas­sion, part of our cul­ture and a uni­fy­ing force. As we cel­e­brate “One Guyana” the host­ing of the CPL fi­nal will be an en­er­giz­ing force. We are build­ing a prod­uct that will be spec­ta­tor fo­cused, in­te­grat­ed with our Re­gion­al part­ners for a glob­al mar­ket. Crick­et car­ni­val is a fu­sion of en­ter­tain­ment and cel­e­bra­tion that will be mind-blow­ing and un­be­liev­ably dif­fer­ent from any oth­er glob­al crick­et­ing event. We wel­come all to the great­est cel­e­bra­tion of mu­sic, pageantry, Caribbean vibes with a South Amer­i­can touch and of course, Crick­et played loud­est.”