Gear up for red cards, and the Bravo-Pollard bromance - All you need to know about CPL 2023
Also, where can you follow the games live, and whom are the big new international signings?
Yes, there's more for fans of West Indies cricket to look forward to on the back of their T20I series win against India. The CPL starts on Wednesday, August 16, with defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs taking on hosts St Lucia Kings in Gros Islet.
The CPL 2023 season will be played in five countries: St Lucia, St Kitts, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. Each country will get six league games across four match days. Guyana will additionally host the playoff leg.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, the CPL is not going to Jamaica, but neither did it last season, and Tallawahs won the title anyway. So home advantage has never mattered too much in the CPL.
Guyana Amazon Warriors have been historically strong. They have five runner-up trophies and have reached the playoffs in each of the last three seasons. That side - with Shimron Hetmyer, Azam Khan, Romario Shepherd and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, among others - is consistently dangerous.
Nothing too out-of-the-box, just a simple red card! According to new playing conditions, if the fielding side is operating too slowly, there might be a situation where the umpire asks one fielder to exit the field in the 20th over.
Among new entrants into the CPL, Ambati Rayudu, the recently retired India international, has signed up with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. Zimbabwe's Sean Williams joins St Lucia Kings while Pakistan's Mohammad Haris will represent Amazon Warriors.
Every match of CPL 2023 will have live ball-by-ball commentary on ESPNcricinfo. Fans in India can watch on FanCode. USA and UK viewers can watch on Willow TV and BT Sport respectively. Fox Sports is broadcasting in Australia, Sky Sports NZ in New Zealand and SportsMax TV across the Caribbean. Fans in Pakistan can watch on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
If you're from Asia, you might have to rethink that unless you plan to be up on the wee hours. Most games are scheduled for 7pm local which is 4.30am in India and 4am in Pakistan. You'll have better chances catching games live on double-header days, when the first game is at 10am local time - that is, 7.30pm in India and 7pm in Pakistan.
Sreshth Shah is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @sreshthx