The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced that its finals will be hosted by Guyana for the next three years, starting in 2022. This year’s tournament culmination will have its first-ever staging in Guyana and the announced three-year long-term agreement will now ensure encore presentations in 2023 and 2024.Guyana’s 2022 CPL tournament matches hosting will include seven group games and three knockout matches, in addition to the final which will take place on Friday 30 September at Guyana’s Providence National Stadium. The acquisition of the three-year CPL Finals hosting agreement could also serve as a major boost to the cricket related aspects of Guyana’s tourism, which until now have suffered severely from a lack of any meaningful initiatives.The opportunity to utilize its CPL 2022 match hosting assignments as a means of correcting previous inadequacies has, however, seemingly not been lost on Guyana’s initiative-driven President Irfaan Ali, himself a former Minister of Tourism. It was heartening to note that months before the CPL’s actual formal announcement of the finalised agreement, President Ali’s Government had already started formulating its own plans for the implementation of initiatives that would allow the full capitalization of the obvious and immense tourism boosting potential for its CPL Finals hosting.
