St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board today announced the schedule for the inaugural Professional Cricket League’s (PCL), Regional 4 Day Tournament. The R4D will be played on a home and away basis over ten rounds from November 14, 2014 to March 23, 2015.

Each of the six franchise teams will have a unique name. The Windward Islands franchise will be known as Volcanoes while the Trinidad and Tobago franchise will be known as Red Force. The other four franchises will announce their names in due course.

The league format tournament will commence with three matches in the opening round from November 14 to 17 in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana. Each round will consist of three matches.

Each team will play ten matches, five at home and five away.

The PCL inaugural Draft Ceremony will be held on Monday, October 6th in Barbados. Each franchise has retained 10 players and will be required to draft five additional players to make up a squad of 15 players.

The Draft Ceremony will be video streamed live on windiescricket.com

The WICB Professional Cricket League comprises the Regional 4 Day Tournament and the NAGICO Super50 Tournament which will be played in January 2015.

So going forward, we won't be even calling these clubs 'Trinidad', 'Barbados', etc, but rather a mascot name.

The first four rounds, and then a break until February....

Round 1 – November 14-17

Jamaica Franchise v Volcanoes – Sabina Park

Red Force v Barbados Franchise – Queen’s Park Oval

Guyana Franchise v Leewards Franchise – Guyana National Stadium

Round 2 – November 21-24

Guyana Franchise v Volcanoes – Providence Stadium

Leewards Franchise v Red Force – Leewards venue TBC

Barbados Franchise v Jamaica Franchise – Kensington Oval

Round 3 – November 28 – December 1

Volcanoes v Leewards Franchise – Grenada National Stadium

Guyana Franchise v Barbados Franchise – Guyana National Stadium

Red Force v Jamaica Franchise – Queen’s Park Oval

Round 4 – December 5 – 8

Volcanoes v Barbados Franchise – Arnos Vale

Jamaica Franchise v Leewards Franchise – Sabina Park

Red Steel v Guyana Franchise – Queen’s Park Oval