By Tony Cozier
It has become increasingly evident that the Caribbean’s two new, high-profile franchise tournaments, the West Indies Cricket Board’s first-class Professional Cricket League (PCL) and the privately financed and organised T20 Caribbean Premier League (CPL), cannot comfortably coexist.
Conde Riley, head of the PCL Barbados Tridents franchise, maintained last week that, at a time of global recession, the economies of the mini-states of West Indies cricket simply could not properly sustain both.
He attributed the PCL’s general failure to attract sponsors principally to competition from the strongly financed,
