{"id":16645,"date":"2020-09-10T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/?p=16645"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:11:04","slug":"cpl-2020-cricket-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/trinidad-news\/sports-news\/cpl-2020-cricket-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"CPL 2020 &#8211; Cricket in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><strong>The Hero Caribbean Premier League2020 was hosted in Trinidad and Tobago, amidst lockdown measures due to COVID 19. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All health protocols were adhered to, and the games ran smoothly. Sadly not with the exciting carnival mood, as no spectators were allowed at the stadium. The games were broadcast live around the world, so Cricket lovers could still experience live cricket, from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>CPL brings a lot of excitement and fun to crickets lovers, as the cricket board selects the best players. The six (6) teams to participate in this year 2020 games were Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, St. Kitts and Navis Patriots, St.Lucia Zouks and Trinbago Knight Riders. The teams consist of both local and foreign players, to name a few of crickets fine\u2019s in this league, Rashid Khan, Imran Tahir, Andre Russel, M Ail Khan, Daren Sammy, Dwayne Bravo, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinbago Knight Riders had a clean sweep, winning every game, taking them into the finals against St. Lucia Zouks. Although the Zouks put up a fight,\u00a0 the Knight Riders made cricket look easy taking the win&#8230; Four times champions TKR..<\/p>\n<p>TKR, the first team to win every game in this league. Something for us Trinbagonians to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket is part of our culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hero Caribbean Premier League2020 was hosted in Trinidad and Tobago, amidst lockdown measures due to COVID 19. All health protocols were adhered to, and the games ran smoothly. Sadly not with the exciting carnival mood, as no spectators were allowed at the stadium. The games were broadcast live around the world, so Cricket lovers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1073,1010],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","category-culture","category-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinigo.com\/trinidad-tobago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}