Kingsmen Sports Enterprise, an American group which recently invested in one of the new Pakistan Super League (PSL) teams, and which is  behind the new Jamaica franchise to be unveiled shortly  for  the upcoming  Caribbean Premier League, will have a responsibility to help with the growth of grass-roots cricket locally. 

The new owners it is understood, must follow the stringent stipulations set out in the acquisition of the franchise

The news means that a  Jamaican  franchise   returning  to  the  Caribbean  Premier  League  for  the  first  time  since  the  exit  of  the  Jamaica  Tallawahs.

Kingsmen is run by Fawad Sarwar, a Pakistani entrepreneur based in the United States, who has  said   that the return of a CPL Franchise would act as an “economic engine” and was designed to promote Jamaica as “a global hub for cricket, culture and sportainment”.

Sarwar was involved in the recent purchase of one of the two new franchises in the PSL, which will be named Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen, and also runs Chicago Kingsmen in Minor League Cricket in the United States. 

A new name for the Jamaican franchise is yet to be confirmed publicly.