| 2022 season of The 6ixty | |
| Administrator: | Cricket West Indies |
| Cricket Format: | T10 cricket |
| Tournament Format: | Group stage and knockouts |
| Host: | Saint Kitts |
| Fromdate: | 24 |
| Todate: | 28 August 2022 |
| Champions: | |
| Participants: | |
| Matches: | 19 |
| Most Runs: | |
| Most Wickets: | Dominic Drakes (Patriots) (6) |
| Player Of The Series: | |
| Website: | 6ixtycricket.com |
The 2022 season of The 6ixty,[1] also known as Sky Exch The 6ixty, for sponsorship reasons, was a T10 cricket tournament organized by Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the Caribbean Premier League (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.[2]
The women's tournament was won by Barbados Royals and the men's tournament was won by St Kitts & Nevis Patriots.
The 6ixty was inspired in part by the success of several local T10 competitions that have been organized around the Caribbean.[3] 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.[4]
The first edition of the tournament was played from August 24 to 28 at the Warner Park Sporting Complex 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 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.[5]
Organizers originally planned to play the competition four times a year, with the possibility of hosting one of these quarterly events outside of the West Indies.
The 6ixty is played in the T10 format of cricket (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.[6] However, the following rules are added in The 6ixty:
The following squads were named for the tournament.[7]
The following squads were named for the tournament.[8]
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| Player | Team | Runs | Highest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabian Allen | Jamaica Tallawahs | 138 | 82 not out |
| Andre Russell | Trinbago Knight Riders | 137 | 72 |
| Andre Fletcher | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots | 130 | 60 not out |
| Corbin Bosch | Barbados Royals | 122 | 42 |
| Amir Jangoo | Jamaica Tallawahs | 111 | 57 not out |
| Player | Team | Runs | Highest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chloe Tryon | Barbados Royals | 114 | 63 |
| Stafanie Taylor | Guyana Amazon Warriors | 93 | 33 not out |
| Deandra Dottin | Trinbago Knight Riders | 75 | 46 |
| Hayley Matthews | Barbados Royals | 63 | 25 not out |
| Suné Luus | Trinbago Knight Riders | 57 | 25 |
| Player | Team | Wickets | Best bowling | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholson Gordon | Jamaica Tallawahs | 6 | 2/16 | |
| Dominic Drakes | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots | 6 | 2/17 | |
| Anderson Phillip | Trinbago Knight Riders | 5 | 3/17 | |
| Jon-Russ Jaggesar | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots | 5 | 2/28 | |
| Odean Smith | Guyana Amazon Warriors | 4 | 2/11 |
| Player | Team | Wickets | Best bowling | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suné Luus | Trinbago Knight Riders | 5 | 2/6 | |
| Sheneta Grimmond | Trinbago Knight Riders | 4 | 1/3 | |
| Cherry-Ann Fraser | Guyana Amazon Warriors | 4 | 3/6 | |
| Shakera Selman | Barbados Royals | 4 | 3/10 | |
| Geetika Kodali | Trinbago Knight Riders | 4 | 3/6 |