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UWI World Universities T20 players join CPL franchises

For Release Upon Receipt - September 2, 2019

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Ahead of the 2019 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 tournament excitement, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hero Caribbean Premier League to collaborate on initiatives to give students the best possible sporting opportunities.

CPL will invite five cricketers who excelled during the 2019 UWI Faculty of Sport World Universities T20 Competition to join CPL franchises for their pre-tournament training camps.  The UWI Faculty of Sport operates through Sport Academies at its campuses and uses the ‘One University’ approach which integrates teaching and research, professional development, community partnerships, and co- and extra-curricular student sport.

Teams which took part in the inaugural World Universities T20 competition included Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC), the 2018 CWI Super 50 champions; Tertiary Sports Association of Trinidad & Tobago;  The University of the West Indies; USA Combined Universities; and Oxford MCCU. 

The following performances determined for the CPL camps selection:

·         Best fast bowler: (fast bowler taking the most wickets in the tournament) Jalarnie Searles (CCC) – 9 wkts @ 14.44 / SR 13.33 / Econ 6.50 / BB 3 for 13 (Assigned to Trinbago Knight Riders)

·         Best batsman: (player scoring most runs in the tournament) Christopher McBride (Oxford) – Matches 6 / Innings 6 / Runs 245 / 3 x 50s / HS 74 / Ave 40.83 / SR 136.87 (Assigned to Jamaica Tallawahs)

·         Best spinner: (spin Bowler taking the most wickets in the tournament) Dominic Clutterbuck (Oxford) – 11 wkts @ 15.45 / SR 14.73 / Econ 6.30 / BB 3 for 24 (Assigned to Barbados Tridents)

·         Best wicketkeeper: (keeper not necessarily having the most dismissals, but consideration given to positioning, technique, involvement in the game etc.) James Seward (Oxford) – 5 catches, 5 stumpings and 1 run out (Assigned to Guyana Amazon Warriors)

·         Best Fielder: (fieldsman not necessarily claiming the most catches but also consideration given to run outs effected, athleticism, throwing accuracy etc.) Keron Cottoy (CCC) won the award for best fielder, and was selected in the player draft by the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, guaranteeing for himself even greater involvement in this year’s tournament

Daren Ganga, Project Officer at The UWI Faculty of Sport and LOC Chairman for The UWI World Universities T20 Tournament stated: “In the spirit of collaboration and development of sport in the region, The UWI Faculty of Sport has shown exactly how healthy relationships with sporting stakeholders like Cricket West Indies and Caribbean Premier League can contribute significantly towards building capacity in young people and advancing our sporting stock.

He added: “The UWI Faculty of Sport blazed a trail with its inaugural World Universities T20 Cricket Tournament in January 2019 and intends to host said Tournament every two years with the blessings of all stakeholders in cricket. More significantly, this inaugural tournament created a real conduit for student athletes to effectively transition from amateurs into professional cricket. Student cricketers had the opportunity to compete in a professional university cricket tournament earlier this year, unknown talents were unearthed and, as you can see, the very best performers were rewarded with opportunities to advance their cricket careers alongside CPL Franchises. Effectively, CPL, CWI and The UWI have improved the player development pathway in the region and strengthened the tertiary tier of cricket considerably with this initiative.”

Michael Hall, Tournament Operations Director for CPL, said: “We are firmly committed to working with The University of the West Indies (UWI) to help unearth the next generation of cricketers who can go on to represent the region on the international stage. By creating this opportunity we hope to get more of our student/cricketers interested in playing at a higher level. After all, critical thinking is a key ingredient for success in sports as well as life.”

 

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Notes to Editor

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Inaugural UWI World Universities T20 Tournament

CCC takes winner’s trophy at first ever UWI World Universities T20 Tournament

 

About The Hero Caribbean Premier League

First started in 2013, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is a franchise-based T20 format cricket tournament that combines two of the most compelling aspects of Caribbean life—dramatic cricket and a vibrant Carnival atmosphere. Combining broadcast and digital viewership over 200 million fans watched the 2018 season to make it one of the fastest growing leagues in world cricket. In 2018 the tournament made a positive economic impact across the Caribbean of US$127million. Trinbago Knight Riders are the current Hero CPL champions and the other competing teams are Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, St. Lucia and Jamaica Tallawahs. The 2019 tournament will take place between 4 September and 12 October. For further information visit www.cplt20.com.

 

More about the UWI World Universities T20 Tournament

The inaugural UWI World Universities T20 Tournament allows The UWI to establish relationships with other reputable universities using cricket as a conduit to produce many more world class student-athletes. It brings to the fore new talent and along with The UWI’s advanced sporting facility, helps expand a pool of ‘thinking cricketers’ and build the region’s dominance in cricket. The UWI World Universities T20 Tournament is the only one of its kind at the tertiary tier, providing much needed exposure and competitive grooming to facilitate the immediate advancement of players into professional cricket; while showcasing what has become the most popular and dominant format of the sport.

 

More about The UWI Faculty of Sport

Launched in 2017, the UWI Faculty of Sport integrates teaching and research, professional development, community partnerships, and co- and extra-curricular student sport through three main units: Professional Programmes, Outreach & Projects Unit, Co-curricular & Intramural-Activity Unit and the Academic Programme & Activity Unit. The faculty is made up of four Academies of Sport: Cave Hill Academy of Sport, Open Campus Academy of Sport, Mona Academy of Sport and St Augustine Academy of Sport. For more information visit www.uwi.edu/sport

 

About The UWI

For more than 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional university with near 50,000 students across five campuses: Cave Hill in Barbados; Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda; Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago; and an Open Campus. Times Higher Education has ranked The UWI among the top 600 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018 and 2019. The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists.

As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa including the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); The UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving the growth and development of the regional economy. For more, visit www.uwi.edu.

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

 

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