The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket

A Caribbean-owned CPL franchise is needed

sgtdjones 9/1/25, 2:37:28 PM
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A Caribbean-owned CPL franchise is needed

Caribbean cricketers, those from the cricketing world and the franchise teams of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), provide great enjoyment to fans locally and on worldwide television. In addition to the exciting nature of the T20 format, the tournament provides a great source of income to players, franchise owners, the television circuit, coaches, managers and administrative staff of the teams.The question is, what does the tournament do for the economic and social advancement of the Caribbean nations which host what is an obvious spectacle of cricket?Wonderful entertainment is had as fans feel excited and nourished by their teams and national players, and also enjoy the opportunity to see and enjoy many of the best players in the world in the shortened format of the game. For many, waving, jumping for joy and coming into close contact with their own and international players, are amongst the greatest of benefits; and T20 has brought a whole new kind of spectator into the old game.

However, as indicated by a cursory check online about the ownership of the franchise teams, they are all foreign owned. So too is the television coverage.We in the region can only have praise for the groupings of business investors who have taken the risk of putting their funds into a sporting venture intent on receiving returns, if not immediately, surely over the medium to long-term; that’s the nature of such investment.The question being asked here is, what of local and regional capital to be invested to create new franchise teams? Is it that this kind of investment into large-scale, long-term business ventures is seen by the regional business community as being too large and risky? If so, it continues the nature of West Indian economic under-development in which large and green-venture capital has come from abroad; risk-taking has not been a feature of Caribbean investors.There surely are a few large regional corporations which have gone abroad with investment in parts of the United States, Latin America and continental Europe. However, the numbers are few, leaving behind timidly, capital and investors unwilling to take on the responsibility of building the national and regional economies from ventures right at home.

In this respect, there is little difference in the nature of today’s West Indian economy compared to that of the plantation economy, which was owned abroad, with the major financial benefits naturally flowing to the owners in the metropole. If there is no one regional corporation to take on the venture of owning a CPL franchise team, the purpose of the projection of the Caricom Single Market and Economy is for such investment to be engaged on a regional basis.Undeniably, T20 cricket, its style, its adventure and the transformation of the approach to the game, were all created by our West Indian cricketers who brought their innate abilities passion and style to the format. It is now absolutely required for the corporations and governments to capitalise on those talents through financial investment and entrepreneurship of regional investors.Our business community, the regional corporate world and the governments of member states must, however, now come together to realise the objectives of the CSME to take advantage of an indigenous product.


T&T Guardian Editorial
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googley 9/1/25, 2:42:17 PM
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Isn't GAW locally owned?
sgtdjones 9/1/25, 2:47:37 PM
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.............

Narps ....retired can take some of the old money and invest

Googley....his puja franchises can purchase a team

BeatDball and his barber shop bwoys can also chip in and buy a team

Grenada's nutmeg team can be purchased by CHE.

Haliwell can purchase one called Yorkshire pudding

Ponderiver can get one for the yard called Bauxite Power

Jumpy can get one for T&T called Carnival Jumpy

Powen and Sodden can get one for the Bajans....Short and Round about the middle

Rascal and Anthony Z can get one for BG called BG oil

VOR can get one for Tortola called REVO calypso king

lol
Narper 9/1/25, 2:53:05 PM
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Sarge your franchise can be called Tittie Powerwink
sgtdjones 9/1/25, 2:55:53 PM
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lol

Gotta get Jumpy involved......lol

He is a young fella , cant corrupt him.
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sgtdjones 9/1/25, 2:57:08 PM
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Caribbean-owned googs: everyone chips in...

Too many camphor fumes, huh?
googley 9/1/25, 3:08:23 PM
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T&T Guardian Editorial is one confused
sgtdjones 9/1/25, 3:27:53 PM
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We still have the plantation economy. The majority of teams are owned by foreigners.
InHindsight 9/1/25, 3:53:47 PM
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I haven't read the article as yet. Will do subsequently. But my initial observation,


Amidst all the 'for-profit' franchises within the CPL as good as the idea seem, will that alternative be a viable business proposition? The first function of any business is to make a profit then after to provide a service.

Genuine enquiry
Narper 9/1/25, 4:30:24 PM
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The Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise is owned by Dr. Ranjisinghi 'Bobby' Ramroop, who also owns the New GPC Inc. company, which is the former title sponsor of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) through its Limacol brand.

Guyanese own from inception
Arlo 9/1/25, 4:59:30 PM
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That's right.

Isn't the Antigua Falcons owned by Krish Persaud? He is a US based Guyanese. I am not aware that he sold the franchise.
sgtdjones 9/1/25, 5:21:43 PM
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Gentlemen....

The editorial is not talking about owners in the Caribbean.

It is focusing on a team owned by the Caribbean citizens. ( all Countries)

Similar to the private entity CWI...
InHindsight 9/1/25, 6:03:09 PM
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Ohh good.

The mindset is to see regional players getting the opportunities
Raskil 9/1/25, 6:08:36 PM
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All I care about is the fact that the cricket is turning out young millionaires in the region on a regular basis.
Make that money!
Brerzerk 9/1/25, 8:17:14 PM
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To be honest I'm surprised a Yard entity didn't find a way to own one. Think if they did there'd be buy-in (shares etc) from other Yard entities if properly marketed
Jumpstart 9/1/25, 8:39:49 PM
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If…….the level of intellectual discussion in Trinidad is at its lowest in history. Both Antigua Falcons and GAW are owned by West Indians, both Guyanese. And they’ve been there since the inception, with Falcons being previously the Tallawahs. And ironically they are the two franchises that have not sold their team ownership, been forced to give it up or have been bought out by external investors, mostly IPL owners. Looking for an issue where there is none. Of greater concern is that we have not heard from the head coach and the batting coach of the WI after 27 all out and 5-0. And that the CPL is increasingly reliant on over 30s for performances. One or two young players have stepped up but the vast majority are either passengers, brain dead or inconsistent and that is a major worry for the long term viability of this tournament. The stars of 2013, are still the stars of 2025
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ray 9/2/25, 1:45:24 PM
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They need to bring more younger players...tomorrow stars
bobby 9/2/25, 2:47:43 PM
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Why is it so hard to understand that cricket is a big money business? There is no sentimentality in business. People invest to make a profit. Anyone who invests to expose cricketers solely because they are from the Caribbean will lose their shirt. CPL is not a development league. Find another way to expose players and this development has to start way before the CPL level.
Narper 9/3/25, 5:50:32 PM
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Isn't the Antigua Falcons owned by Krish Persaud? He is a US based Guyanese. I am not aware that he sold the franchise.

He is still the owner....and his CPL he fired Shiv as head coach and bring in dat nut case Nixon
Jumpstart 9/3/25, 8:40:05 PM
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his CPL he fired Shiv as head coach and bring in dat nut case Nixon

lol
sgtdjones 9/3/25, 8:42:44 PM
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If we playing dem tonite we putting abeat dong on em.lol
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