Caribbean Premier League 2016 will start on 30th June 2016 when defending Champion Trinbago Knight Riders will take on St. Lucia Zouks at the Queen’s Park Oval in the opening match of the tournament. Trinbago Knight Riders duo Hashim Amla and Brendon McCullum are excited excited about pulling on the TKR colours as Dwayne Bravo’s men attempt to retain the title they won in dramatic fashion last year on their home ground.
South Africa’s Hashim Amla:
“The West Indies is a wonderful place. The weather is exceptional, the excitement has been brilliant and everybody is looking forward to the CPL. It’s the first time that I’ve been involved in this competition and just from all the chat with the Trinbagonians, everybody’s really confident and hoping that it’s a great start for us. Certainly, being champions last year, we’ll be trying to defend that. It’s been a lovely few days since I’ve been with the boys.
New Zealand's Brendon McCullum:
“Every team has got good players in the CPL and I think that’s probably a mark of the tournament that it’s attracting the world’s best players combined with the Caribbean’s best players as well. I think that’s a great sign for the tournament in general that it’s becoming a global attraction for all of the players around the world. It’s going to be a tough game (against St. Lucia Zouks), but they’re all going to be tough games so from our point of view we’ve got a good team as well. So we’ve got to go out there and play in the style and the manner which gives us the most amount of satisfaction and hopefully we win the game.