Amir Jan­goo is among the pro­tect­ed play­ers con­firmed for the West In­dies Break­out League which will take place from April 25 to May 10. The League will fea­ture 17 match­es, all host­ed at the pres­ti­gious Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, T&T.

On Tues­day, the six fran­chise teams com­pet­ing in the high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed League have of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed their sev­en pro­tect­ed play­ers ahead of the up­com­ing play­er draft.

Jan­goo (27), who made a cen­tu­ry on his One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) de­but against Bangladesh late last year and then had his maid­en Test call-up in the two-match Test se­ries against Pak­istan in Jan­u­ary is joined by Kamil Pooran (28), Jyd Goolie (27), Crys­t­ian Thur­ton (24), Navin Bidaisee (24), Mikkel Govia (23) and Joshua James (23) are the sev­en play­ers for the T&T Le­gions.

As per tour­na­ment reg­u­la­tions, each team is al­lowed to pro­tect sev­en crick­eters, with a max­i­mum of three play­ers aged be­tween 27 and 29. The re­main­ing sev­en play­ers per squad will be se­lect­ed dur­ing the draft, and they must all be 26 years old or younger. Recog­nis­ing their im­por­tance to the T20 game, CWI has al­so man­dat­ed that one of the pro­tect­ed sev­en play­ers must be a leg spin­ner.

To main­tain the league’s fo­cus on emerg­ing tal­ent, all play­ers must al­so have lim­it­ed pro­fes­sion­al ex­pe­ri­ence, de­fined as hav­ing played few­er than 40 List A T20 match­es and few­er than 10 In­ter­na­tion­al T20s.

About the West In­dies Break­out League

The West In­dies Break­out League is a pre­mier T20 crick­et tour­na­ment de­signed to spot­light emerg­ing tal­ent from across the Caribbean. The league will fea­ture teams rep­re­sent­ing the six ter­ri­to­r­i­al boards that com­prise Crick­et West In­dies: Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans, Guyana Rain­for­est Rangers, Ja­maica Ti­tans, Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der, T&T Le­gions and the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos.

Play­ers el­i­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate must be un­der 30 years old or at the start of the tour­na­ment, have played few­er than 40 List A T20 match­es and few­er than 10 in­ter­na­tion­al T20s, en­sur­ing a fo­cus on de­vel­op­ing new tal­ent. Each team is close­ly af­fil­i­at­ed with a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fran­chise, pro­vid­ing play­ers with an op­por­tu­ni­ty to show­case their skills on a larg­er stage and progress their crick­et­ing ca­reers.

Be­low is the list of pro­tect­ed play­ers for each fran­chise, with their cur­rent ages in brack­ets:

T&T Le­gions: Kamil Pooran (28), Amir Jan­goo (27), Jyd Goolie (27), Crys­t­ian Thur­ton (24), Navin Bidaisee (24), Mikkel Govia (23), Joshua James (23),

Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der: Je­re­mi­ah Louis (28), Kea­cy Car­ty (27), Kofi James (27), Kari­ma Gore (26), Mikyle Louis (24), Jew­el An­drew (18), Mic­ah McKen­zie (18)

Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos: Darel Cyrus (28), Shadrack Descarte (27), Shamar Springer (27), Al­ick Athanaze (26), Dil­lon Dou­glas (26), Ted­dy Bish­op (22), Ac­k­eem Au­guste (21)

Guyana Rain­for­est Rangers: Nial Smith (29), Ke­mol Sa­vory (28), Ronal­do Al­imo­hamed (26), Kevin Sin­clair (25), Ash­mead Nedd (24), Kevlon An­der­son (24), Riyad Lat­iff (17)

Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans: Leniko Bouch­er (27), Kadeem Al­leyne (24), Joshua Bish­op (24), Ny­eem Young (24), Shaqkere Par­ris (21), Kevin Wick­ham (21), Zis­han Mo­tara (18)

Ja­maica Ti­tans: Deeth­mar An­der­son (29), Leroy Lugg (28), Ra­maal Lewis (28), Jeav­or Roy­al (26), Kirk McKen­zie (24), Jor­dan John­son (19), Tamarie Red­wood (18)

(Cour­tesy CWI Me­dia)