The 2022 season of The 6ixty,
also known as Sky Exch The 6ixty, for sponsorship reasons, was a
T10 cricket
T10 cricket or Ten10 cricket is a short form of cricket. Two teams play a single innings, which is restricted to a maximum of ten overs (60 legal balls) per side, with the game lasting approximately 90 minutes. The first competition using this ...
tournament organized by
Cricket West Indies
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies). It was originally ...
(CWI) and the
Caribbean Premier League
The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20) is an annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in the Caribbean. It was founded by Cricket West Indies in 2013 to replace the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in ...
(CPL) which was played in
St. Kitts and Nevis in its inaugural edition, which took place in August 2022 in the lead-up to the CPL. There were both a men's and women's edition of the tournament running at the same time, with the teams and their player rosters being mostly the same as in the CPL and
Women's CPL. Several changes were made to the usual rules of T10 cricket in the competition.
The women's tournament was won by
Barbados Royals and the men's tournament was won by
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots.
Background
The 6ixty was inspired in part by the success of several local
T10 competitions that have been organized around the
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greate ...
.
It was also meant to grow the women's game by building on the foundations established by the women's T10 exhibition matches that were played just before the
2019 CPL playoffs.
Chris Gayle
Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born 21 September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who has been playing international cricket for the West Indies since 1999. A destructive batter, Gayle is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have play ...
has been named the Brand Ambassador for the tournament, with the trophy (the "Universe Boss Trophy") named after him.
Scheduling
The first edition of the tournament was played from August 24 to 28 at the
Warner Park Sporting Complex
Warner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is named after Sir Thomas Warner, the explore ...
stadium in St. Kitts and Nevis. There was a concurrent men's and women's tournament, with all of the six teams from the
Caribbean Premier League
The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20) is an annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in the Caribbean. It was founded by Cricket West Indies in 2013 to replace the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in ...
and the three teams from the
Women's Caribbean Premier League participating.
There was a total of 12 men's games and 7 women's games played, with each men's team playing 3 games, and each women's team playing 4 games. The playoffs in the men's edition featured the 1st place team in the league playing the 4th place team in one semi-final, and 2nd vs 3rd in the other semi-final, with the final then to follow. The women's edition went directly from the league stage to the final, which was contested by the top two teams in the league stage.
Organizers plan to organize the competition four times a year, with the possibility of hosting one of these quarterly events outside of the West Indies.
Rules
The 6ixty is played in the T10 format of
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
(also referred to by its organizers as "60-ball cricket"),
meaning that in each game, each team bats for a maximum of 10
overs (60 legal
balls), each bowler bowls a maximum of two overs, and games last approximately 90 minutes. However, the following rules are added in The 6ixty:
* Teams are
all out (i.e. they can't bat anymore) upon losing 6
wickets
In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings:
* It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out.
* ...
, rather than 10.
* The first 5
overs of each
innings will all be bowled from one end of the
pitch, with the other 5 overs bowled from the other end.
* Fielding teams must bowl the 10 overs of an innings within 45 minutes, or they lose a fielder during the final over.
* The batting team can 'unlock' a third
powerplay over by hitting two sixes in the initial two powerplay overs.
* Fans will be able to vote to decide the timing of a "Mystery
Free Hit
In cricket, a free hit is a delivery to a batter in which the batter cannot be dismissed by any methods other than those applicable for a no-ball, namely run out, hit the ball twice and obstructing the field.
It is relevant in One Day Internati ...
" in each innings. (This will be a delivery on which the batters can't be dismissed in almost any way.)
Squads
Men's
The following squads were named for the tournament.
Women's
The following squads were named for the tournament.
Points tables
Men's
* advanced to the
Semifinals
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final mat ...
Women's
* advanced to the
Final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
* Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
Women's fixtures
League stage
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Final
Men's fixtures
League stage
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Playoffs
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Men
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Women
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets
Men
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Women
Source: ESPNcricinfo
References
External links
Women's Series home at ESPN CricinfoMen's Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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Ten10 cricket leagues
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