Cricket West Indies (CWI) has unveiled the schedule for the 2024 West Indies Championship, that includes an enlargement within the variety of collaborating groups and matches for the premier four-day competitors.
The West Indies Academy, following its success within the Headley-Weekes match in 2023, is poised to make its debut within the West Indies First-Class season. Moreover, the Mixed Campuses and Faculties (CCC) are returning to the match after a hiatus of some years.
The 2024 West Indies Championship is scheduled to start in February, with the primary three rounds going down from February 7 to February 24. These matches can be hosted in a number of nations, together with St. Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua and Barbuda. The match is about to renew in March and conclude in April.
The eight regional groups competing for the celebrated Headley Weekes Trophy over seven rounds are the defending champions, Guyana Harpy Eagles, Barbados Pleasure, CCC, Jamaica Scorpions, Leeward Islands Hurricanes, Trinidad and Tobago Purple Pressure, West Indies Academy, and Windward Islands Volcanoes.
The 2024 West Indies Championship will function a major enhance in prize cash, with the profitable staff receiving US$250,000, whereas the second-placed staff can be awarded US$100,000.
Johnny Grave, the CEO of CWI, expressed pleasure in asserting the schedule and welcomed the inclusion of two new groups, highlighting the necessity for elevated assets. He famous that venues for the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup in June had undergone important upgrades, and matches can be held throughout varied areas in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Grave additionally talked about that each one the matches can be accessible for stay streaming on the Windies Cricket YouTube channel and accompanied by stay ball-by-ball scores on the CWI web site, making it accessible for followers world wide to comply with the competitors intently.
Because the West Indies Championship prepares to kick off in February, cricket fanatics can look ahead to witnessing the enlargement of the match and the heightened competitors among the many regional groups, with elevated prize cash including to the thrill of the occasion.
Event schedule
7 to 10 February:
Jamaica Scorpions vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – Sabina Park, Jamaica
CCC vs Barbados Pleasure – Chedwin Park, Jamaica
Leeward Islands Hurricanes vs West Indies Academy – Warner Park, St. Kitts
Guyana Harpy Eagles vs Trinidad & Tobago Purple Pressure – Conaree Cricket Centre, St. Kitts
14 to 17 February:
Jamaica Scorpions vs CCC – Sabina Park, Jamaica
Barbados Pleasure vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – Kensington Cricket Membership, Jamaica
Leeward Islands Hurricanes vs Guyana Harpy Eagles – Warner Park, St. Kitts
Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure vs West Indies Academy – Conaree Cricket Centre, St. Kitts
21 to 24 February:
Jamaica Scorpions vs Barbados Pleasure – Sabina Park, Jamaica
Windward Islands Volcanoes vs CCC – Chedwin Park, Jamaica
Leeward Islands Hurricanes vs Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure – Warner Park, St. Kitts
West Indies Academy vs Guyana Harpy Eagles – Coolidge Cricket Floor (CCG), Antigua
13 to 16 March:
Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad
CCC vs Leeward Islands Hurricanes – Diego Martin Regional Complicated, Trinidad
Guyana Harpy Eagles vs Barbados Pleasure – Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Floor at UWI Spec (UWI SPEC), Trinidad
West Indies Academy vs Jamaica Scorpions – CCG, Antigua
20 March to 23 March:
Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure vs Barbados Pleasure – Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad
Leeward Islands Hurricanes vs Jamaica Scorpions – Diego Martin Regional Complicated, Trinidad
Guyana Harpy Eagles vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – UWI SPEC, Trinidad
West Indies Academy vs CCC – CCG, Antigua
10 to 13 April:
Jamaica Scorpions vs Guyana Harpy Eagles – Sabina Park, Jamaica
CCC vs Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure – Chedwin Park, Jamaica
Leeward Hurricanes vs Barbados Pleasure – UWI SPEC, Trinidad
West Indies Academy vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – CCG, Antigua
17 to twenty April:
Jamaica Scorpions vs Trinidad &Tobago Purple Pressure – Sabina Park, Jamaica
CCC vs Guyana Harpy Eagles – Kensington Cricket Membership, Jamaica
Leeward Islands Hurricanes vs Windward Islands Volcanoes – UWI SPEC, Trinidad
West Indies Academy vs Barbados Pleasure – CCG, Antigua
