CPL losing money?

[mikesiva]

"The CPL is taking a chance this year. It was the success it was in 2013 because it turned into a people’s festival. But the tournament was run at a loss. The night time matches allowed for big crowds to turn out. But prime time in the Caribbean is hardly that in the bigger television markets outside the region. So, in an attempt to address revenue this season, the majority of games will be day-time affairs to cater for the overseas audience."

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The crowd in Grenada on the opening Friday was poor, the crowd only got half-decent for the second match between jamaica and St Lucia on saturday, and now only three men and a dog have turned up for Antigua vs Jamaica at North Sound.

[Gils]

Lol I wonder why you don't compare the " schools event that gets 90 000 people over three days " with the CARIBBEAN PREMIERE LEAGUE.

Foreign TV slots are more important than local support in the stadiums.

Not being custodians of WI cricket means their not even required to care.

[mikesiva]

Lol I wonder why you don't compare the " schools event that gets 90 000 people over three days " with the CARIBBEAN PREMIERE LEAGUE.

Foreign TV slots are more important than local support in the stadiums.

Not being custodians of WI cricket means their not even required to care.

lol...government minister ah beg fans to come out this weekend.

[Gils]

Did the government minister spend government money with CPL.

[mikesiva]

Did the government minister spend government money with CPL.

I wouldn't be surprised....

Now, that was a crowd at Providence...pay attention, Antigua and Grenada - that's how you do it!

That said, it was the first night match of the tournament. Let's see what the day matches on the weekend bring.

[mikesiva]

Yesterday's matches...another poor crowd at North Sound, and another good crowd at Providence.

And this was an afternoon match, so maybe we should play the entire CPL in Guyana.

[Gils]

How long since Guyana had any cricket outside of CPL.

[mikesiva]

"CLOSE to $200,000 in Caribbean Premier League (CPL) ticket sales has gone missing from an office at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, leading police to believe the money may have been stolen by an employee. It was around 8.15 a.m. yesterday that the $179,000 that was placed in a drawer for safe keeping was discovered missing by an employee. Investigating officers said they were told by the employee she placed the money in an envelope and secured it in the drawer at around 5 p.m. on Saturday, but it could not be found when she went in search of it yesterday morning."

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[BallOil]

Change the name to PoS stealers ...LOL

[mikesiva]

"The CEO of the Caribbean Premier League and the new director of cricket of the West Indies Cricket Board came face to face last week with the complex peculiarities of West Indies cricket. Damien O'Donohue of the CPL is Irish, Richard Pybus of the WICB is English. Both are relative newcomers to the factors that unite and divide these former British colonies. West Indies cricket encompasses ten of those colonies, all jealously guarding their independence and their own self-interest. O'Donohue and Pybus have separate roles. O'Donohue's bosses, the Irish mobile phone company, Digicel, own the CPL. Operating under a 20-year license from the WICB, they are spending millions aiming to create a T20 tournament to compare, indeed outdo, those that continue to spring up across the cricketing globe."

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I thought the CPL was owned by Ajmal Khan...what changed and when?