[UPDATED] New 60-ball tournament to debut at 2022 CPL

CRICKET West Indies (CWI) and the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will provide fans with further entertainment with The 6IXTY – Cricket’s Power Game.

The first edition of The 6IXTY will see men’s and women’s teams compete in a new 60-ball tournament featuring many of the best cricketers from around the world with SKYEXCH the title sponsor for 2022.

The 6IXTY will be played from August 24-28 at Warner Park in St Kitts, prior to the 2022 CPL which bowls off on August 30.

The six men’s CPL teams will all play in The 6IXTY including Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR), Guyana Amazon Warriors, Barbados Royals, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, St Lucia Kings and Jamaica Tallawahs.

TKR, Royals and Amazon Warriors will feature in the women’s 6IXTY.

A CPL media release on Wednesday said, “This revolutionary format will see brand new innovations that will change T10 cricket and make the game even faster paced and action packed.”

Each batting team has six wickets – at the fall of the sixth wicket they are all out. The batting team has two power play overs and they will be allowed a third power play if they hit two sixes in the first 12 balls of the innings. The extra power play over can be taken at any time between overs three and nine.

There will be 30 balls bowled from one end of the wicket, before the action switches to the other end for the final 30 balls.

The 30 balls will be delivered as five separate overs with no bowler being able to bowl more than two overs for the innings.

The teams will have to keep an eye on the clock as if teams do not bowl their overs within the allotted time a member of their team is removed from the field for the final six balls. Fans will be involved in the action as they will decide when a “mystery free hit” takes place.

President of CWI Ricky Skerritt, said, “The 6IXTY has come about because of a close collaboration between CPL and CWI which is the way forward. I am really excited about the innovation, excitement and entertainment that it is going to bring to the fans.”

Hero CPL’s CEO Pete Russell is also anticipating the new initiative. He said, “This is a hugely exciting moment for both CPL and CWI as we create a tournament that will see cricket fans brought closer to the game. There will be world-class men’s and women’s cricketers taking part in a fantastic event for the Caribbean and this combined with cutting-edge innovations, signals a great moment for all fans of West Indian cricket.”

Former West Indies cricketers Stacy-Ann King and Samuel Badree spoke at the launch of The 6IXTY, hosted by media personality Alex Jordan. Badree said teams will have to adjust to the six-wicket rule.

“It is something that teams will have to get use to. You are accustom with ten wickets in hand so you bat a certain way. Now that you only have six wickets in hand you have to adapt to that. It might take a few games to understand the strategy.”

Badree said power hitters may open the batting as oppose to coming lower down the order.

King agrees with Badree.

“You need your best batting players or batters within that top order batting (because) if you loss six wickets that’s it.”

This story has been adjusted to include additional details. See original post below.

CRICKET West Indies (CWI) and the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will provide fans with further entertainment with The 6IXTY – Cricket’s Power Game.

The first edition of The 6IXTY will see men’s and women’s teams compete in a new 60-ball tournament featuring many of the best cricketers from around the world with SKYEXCH the title sponsor for 2022.

The 6IXTY will be played from August 24-28 at Warner Park in St Kitts, before the 2022 CPL bowls off on August 30.

The six men’s CPL teams will all play in The 6IXTY including Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR), Guyana Amazon Warriors, Barbados Royals, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, St Lucia Kings and Jamaica Tallawahs.

TKR, Royals and Amazon Warriors will feature in the women’s 6IXTY.

A CPL media release on Wednesday said, “This revolutionary format will see brand new innovations that will change T10 cricket and make the game even faster-paced and action-packed.”

Each batting team has six wickets – at the fall of the sixth wicket, they are all out.

The batting team has two power-play overs and they will be allowed a third power-play if they hit two sixes in the first 12 balls of the innings.

The extra power-play over can be taken at any time between overs three and nine.

There will be 30 balls bowled from one end of the wicket before the action switches to the other end for the final 30 balls.

The 30 balls will be delivered as five separate overs with no bowler being able to bowl more than two overs for the innings.

The teams will have to keep an eye on the clock. If teams do not bowl their overs within the allotted time, a member of their team is removed from the field for the final six balls.

Fans will be involved in the action as they will decide when a “mystery-free hit” takes place.