22-655: T20 kit The Guyana Amazon Warriors is a cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Providence , Georgetown, Guyana . It represents Guyana in the league and was established in 2013 for the inaugural season . The team plays home games at Providence Stadium in Guyana. They recruit players mainly from West Indian domestic teams. They have reached six CPL finals and won their first tournament in 2023 . The Guyana Amazon Warriors were among
44-728: A Caribbean Premier League (CPL) franchise based in Antigua and Barbuda , that replaced the Jamaica Tallawahs from the 2024 Caribbean Premier League season. The team is owned by Worldwide Sports Management Group. The team was unveiled at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Sugar Factory, Saint George on 20 February 2024, where they will play their home matches. The Falcons are owned by businessman Kris Persaud and coached by cricket legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul . The Antigua & Barbuda Falcons plays their home games at
66-609: A Barbados-based merchant bank, for the funding of the new franchise-based Twenty20 league to be launched in 2013. It was then expected that the new Caribbean Premier League was likely to comprise six Caribbean city-based franchises as opposed to the current territorial set-up with the majority of the players are to come from the West Indies. As part of the agreement, the WICB will receive additional funding from Verus International for additional retainer contracts for players in addition to
88-546: A final to determine the winner of the tournament. All three of the elimination playoff games will be played at Queen's Park Oval and Brian Lara Stadium . The 6ixty is a T10 league organized by Cricket West Indies and the Caribbean Premier League that is scheduled to be played four times a year, starting with a five-day men's and women's tournament in August 2022. A number of significant changes are made to
110-453: A group stage and a knockout stage. In the group stage, the teams each play ten matches overall, three of which are at home. This unusual format occurs because all six teams are co-located at a single playing site for five sequential matches, then the whole tournament moves to a new location for five more games, and so on. Six stadiums are used (see Venues below), each a home field for one of the teams. The playoff stage includes two semi-finals and
132-674: The 2016 Caribbean Premier League , Martin Guptill took over as captain, replacing Denesh Ramdin . The team also added international players Sohail Tanvir , Dwayne Smith , Chris Lynn , Adam Zampa , as well as local stars Chris Barnwell , Jason Mohammed , and Rayad Emrit . Imran Tahir led the Guyana Amazon Warriors to their first championship title in the 2023 Caribbean Premier League , with Romario Shepherd as Vice-Captain and Lance Klusener as head coach. This victory came after being runner ups five times, defeating
154-775: The Caribbean . It was founded by Cricket West Indies in 2013 to replace the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in the Caribbean. It is currently sponsored by Republic Bank Limited and consequently officially named the Republic Bank CPL . The inaugural tournament was won by the Jamaica Tallawahs who defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the final. Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organised manner in
176-594: The Guyana Amazon Warriors who defeated Trinbago Knight Riders by 9 wickets to win their first CPL title. Team now defunct Caribbean mobile network Digicel was named as the first global sponsor for the inaugural 2013 tournament and beyond in a multi-year deal. As previous sponsors of the West Indies cricket team and the Digicel Caribbean Cup the brand has considerable experience with sponsoring cricket and other sporting events throughout
198-584: The Trinbago Knight Riders at the Providence Stadium in Guyana. Following the new team Antigua & Barbuda Falcons 5th place finish in their inaugural (2024) season. The Amazon Warriors retain the distinction of being the only team to never be eliminated in the league stage. Caribbean Premier League The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20 ) is an annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in
220-409: The 20 annual retainer contracts the board currently funds. Dates for the tournament were confirmed for the 2013 Caribbean Premier League as 29 July to 26 August. The 2014 and 2015 tournaments took place between 5 July to 10 August and 21 June to 26 July respectively and the 2016 tournament took place between 29 June to 7 August. The CPL T20 tournament is played between six teams and is divided into
242-610: The Caribbean Twenty20 tournament by the WICB. The Caribbean Twenty20 was created to fill the gap left by the end of the Stanford 20/20 and to coincide with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which started less than two months after. The top domestic team from the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament qualified for the Champions League as the sole representative of the West Indies. The WICB first announced
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#1732787009363264-493: The Caribbean. "The CPL is a perfect fit for Digicel. We’re huge fans of West Indies cricket and this is a great opportunity for us to invest not only in what will be an amazing event, but also in the young cricketers who will benefit from around the region," stated Digicel Group Marketing Operations Director Kieran Foley. Following the acquisition of the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise owner, Dr. Ranjisingh 'Bobby' Ramroop's New GPC Inc, specifically its Limacol brand, has assumed
286-529: The West Indies in 2006 with the privately organised Stanford 20/20 . The second and last edition of the Stanford competition was officially made part of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) calendar in 2008, after which the tournament ended when its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009. The next organised Twenty20 competition came about with the creation of
308-503: The awareness of CPL across the region, and increase fan support, which will put people in the stands at matches and customers in the aisles of Courts." El Dorado Rum has been named as an official partner of the inaugural tournament, and sponsors the tournament's Catch of the Match award, which goes to one player in each game who makes a thrilling catch. Antigua %26 Barbuda Falcons T20 kit Antigua & Barbuda Falcons are
330-440: The competition twice and two teams have won the competition once. Trinbago Knight Riders are the most successful team in the history of Caribbean Premier League. Followed by Jamaica Tallawahs who won thrice, Barbados Tridents has won two titles,. Trinbago Knight Riders who defeated St Lucia Zouks in the final of 2020 Season to secure their fourth CPL title and winning back-to-back championships. The current champions are
352-558: The governance structure of the board and also discuss the planned commercial Twenty20 league and to finalise its structure. The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) were also to be brought in to discuss issues pertaining to players in relation to the planned T20 league. On 13 December 2012, the WICB announced that they had finalised an agreement with Ajmal Khan founder of Verus International,
374-570: The highest wicket-taker of the season. In the 2014 Caribbean Premier League, the Amazon Warriors finished second in the group stage and were then defeated by the Barbados Tridents by 8 runs (D/L) in the final at Warner Park , Basseterre , St Kitts . Captained by Sunil Narine , the team included players like Martin Guptill , Mohammad Hafeez , Jimmy Neesham , Krishmar Santokie , Lendl Simmons , and Denesh Ramdin . Simmons
396-612: The plans for the Caribbean Premier League in September 2012 when it was revealed that the board was "in the advanced stages of discussions to have a commercial Twenty20 league in the region" with an unnamed investor and hoped to conclude a deal before 30 September. On 14 September, the board met to make decisions on the structure and organisation of the Caribbean Twenty20 CPL Schedule in January; to discuss
418-559: The six teams established for the inaugural season of the Caribbean Premier League in 2013 . In that same year, they finished as runners-up in the tournament, losing to the Jamaica Tallawahs by 7 wickets at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad . The team, led by Ramnaresh Sarwan , featured notable international players like Tillakaratne Dilshan , James Franklin , Lasith Malinga , and West Indian stars Sunil Narine , Lendl Simmons , and Denesh Ramdin . Krishmar Santokie emerged as
440-465: The title sponsorship of the CPL. In June 2013 Courts announced their sponsorship of the Caribbean Premier League "CPL's partnership with Courts is a very strategic and beneficial one to both parties, and we are thrilled about the possibilities that exist for us from a marketing perspective," said CPL CEO Damien O' Donohoe. "Combining our advertising and marketing programmes with that of Courts will heighten
462-440: The usual rules of T10 cricket: The tournament includes six franchises with 15 contracted players each, including a maximum of five international players and four players under the age of 23. Each team has one local and one international franchise player. Out of the six teams that have played in the Caribbean Premier League since its inception, one team has won the competition four times, one team has won thrice, one team have won
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#1732787009363484-612: Was named player of the series with 445 runs that season.. In the 2015 Caribbean Premier League , they again finished second in the group stage behind Barbados Tridents . However, they lost to Trinbago Knight Riders in the semi-final by 6 wickets at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad . The team, captained by Denesh Ramdin , had a star-studded lineup that included players like Lasith Malinga , Thisara Perera , Tillakaratne Dilshan , Brad Hodge , Marchant de Lange , David Wiese , Umar Akmal , Shivnarine Chanderpaul , Veerasammy Permaul , Lendl Simmons , and Sunil Narine . In
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