The Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs in Trinidad and To­ba­go, will give a mas­sive boost to re­gion­al women’s crick­et when they host two play­off match­es in Trinidad to­wards the back end of the tour­na­ment.

Of­fi­cials of the CPL will an­nounce plans for the match­es to­day at a press con­fer­ence at the La Bou­can Room at the Hilton Trinidad in Port-of-Spain at 12.30 pm.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the or­gan­is­ers of the CPL had an idea to have two women’s match­es pri­or to the Qual­i­fi­er II on Oc­to­ber 8 and the fi­nal card­ed for Oc­to­ber 12.

The match­es, which have the bless­ing of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), are ex­pect­ed to be a 20-over af­fair for Oc­to­ber 8 and a ten-over af­fair for the fi­nal. It is un­der­stood that the match­es will be car­ried “live” across the world both on tele­vi­sion and ra­dio and the women will get a chance to show­case their tal­ent on this ma­jor plat­form.

Ac­cord­ing to one of­fi­cial close to the sit­u­a­tion, this will be big for women’s crick­et in the re­gion.

“This is re­al­ly a great move by the CPL to have this match. This will be big for our women’s crick­eters be­cause not on­ly will they be able to play in front a huge crowd at Lara Sta­di­um, they will al­so get in­to mil­lions of homes across the globe be­cause of the broad­cast.”