THERE were a host of inevitable questions hanging over the Caribbean Premier League when Julian Hunte, then West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president, announced last year that it was selling its annual Twenty20 tournament to Verus International, a wealth management organization based in New York and Barbados.
The extravaganza that the newest, and shortest, form of the game has become on every point on cricket’s map got underway in Barbados and Guyana during the week. These are early days yet but several of the initial reservations have diminished, if not disappeared completely.
For four years, the WICB had failed to find a sponsor for any of its three major tournaments. Suddenly, they are falling over each other to have their names attached to the CPL – the Limacol Caribbean Premier League to
