Caribbean Premier League

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Updated On : 06 May, 2019

Full Name
Caribbean Premier League

Type
domestic

Location
Caribbean

Disabled
No

Conducted
Annually

Gender
Both

Trivia

Jamaica Tallawahs is the current champion team of the league, that has added two titles to their name.

The Caribbean Premier League (commonly referred by its abbreviated name CPL or CPLT20) is a Twenty20 cricket tournament, held annually in the Caribbean. It is organized by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament is currently being sponsored by the Hero MotoCorp and is officially titled as the Hero CPL (sponsors). The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) was founded in the year 2013 to serve as a replacement for the Caribbean Twenty20. The inaugural tournament was held from 30th July to 24th August 2013. It was won by the Jamaica Tallawahs who defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the final match.

On 13th December 2012, the WICB announced that they had made an agreement with Ajmal Khan, the founder of Verus International about the funding of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which was planned to be inaugurated in 2013. The WIPA (West Indies Players Association) and the FICA (Federation of International Cricketers' Associations) were brought in to discuss the players of the CPL.

Competition Format

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is a T20 format cricket tournament that has six teams participating. The tournament has group stages and the knockout stage.
In the group stage, each team has to play ten matches, of which, three games are home games.
The playoff stage comprises of the two semi-finals and the final match.
A Twenty20 match is usually played within three hours’ time. It is a limited over tournament where each team gets 20 overs of bowling and batting, respectively. Each bowler gets four overs.
In case a bowler oversteps the crease, the ball is declared a no-ball, and the next ball is declared a free hit (batsman won’t be declared out if the ball is caught out or he is bowled out).
In the course of the first six overs, only two fielders are allowed to be outside the 30-yard circle. This is popularly known as the "Powerplay" segment of the game.
After the first six overs, a maximum of five fielders can be outside the 30-yard circle.
"Eliminator" or "Super Over" is a tie-breaking method, used in T20 matches when the match results in a draw. Three batsmen and one bowler are selected by each team to play one over, per side. Bowl-off was the initial tie-breaker system in which five bowlers were selected to hit the unguarded wicket.