(CMC) – Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, Dr. Kishore Shallow, has revealed plans for a new domestic T20 competition in 2025, aimed at determining which team will represent the West Indies at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics (LA28). Speaking on the WESN TV sports show hosted by Andre Baptiste, Shallow outlined that plans are far advanced to host the regional tournament. “We are putting things in place to have our own T20 league, which is a domestic T20 league,” said Shallow. It is really for emerging players, but you will have senior guys as well. This is a tournament that we are going to use to find new talent, and it is scheduled for May next year.”
The CWI president outlined that discussions are already underway with the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to sponsor the tournament next year and that much more details will be finalised following meetings that took place in Paraguay and further meetings to be held in the Turks and Caicos.
Shallow explained that the domestic T20 competition will feature territorial teams, providing a clear path for the winning side to be selected for the Olympics. “There will not be every island in the Caribbean sending a cricket team to participate. We still have to finalise how many teams that will take part and the format. All that will be decided at the upcoming ICC meeting.”
Cricket was one of six sports, joining baseball, softball, flag football, squash, and lacrosse, that were recently added to the Olympic program specifically for LA28. It has been in the Games once before, in 1900.
