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**Sir X** · November 1, 2008, 08:50 PM

Stanford Super Series: Stanford Superstars v England
01-11-2008 at Antigua , Day 2 of 2
Stanford Superstars beat England by 10 wickets

England won the toss and decided to bat
England Innings
99 all out (19.5 overs)
Stanford Superstars Innings
101 for 0 (12.4 overs)

England Innings - All out

Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Bell
b Taylor7
1100Prior
b Taylor12
1120Shahc Mohammedb Sammy4
800Pietersen
b Sammy7
1400Flintoff
b Pollard8
1210Collingwoodc Sarwanb Benn10
1510Patelrun out
22
2420Wrightc Sammyb Pollard1
500Swann
b Benn3
300Broadnot out
9
1200S Harmison
b Benn6
410Extras
9w 1lb10
Total
all out99(19.5 ovs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
Sammy4.00132Taylor4.00252Powell4.00180Benn3.50163P ollard4.00262Fall of wicket

21Bell22Prior29Shah33Pietersen51Flintoff54Collingw ood59Wright64Swann92Patel99S Harmison
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Stanford Superstars Innings - Close

Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Gaylenot out
65
4555Fletchernot out
32
3150Extras
3w 1lb4
Total
for 0101(12.4 ovs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
S Harmison3.00300Broad3.00240Flintoff3.40250Patel1.0 090Collingwood1.0040Swann1.0080Fall of wicket

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Umpires: R E Koertzen, S J A Taufel
Stanford Superstars: Gayle, Fletcher, Chanderpaul, Sarwan, Joseph, Pollard, Sammy, Benn, Powell, Taylor, Mohammed
England: Bell, Prior, Shah, Pietersen, Flintoff, Collingwood, Patel, Wright, Broad, S Harmison, Swann
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Stanford Super Series, Antigua:
Superstars 101-0 beat England 99 by 10 wickets
By Oliver Brett

England never recovered from losing Pietersen cheaply early on

England were embarrassed in the finale of the Stanford Super Series as the Superstars team won by 10 wickets to pocket the $20m (£12.4m) prize fund.
England slumped to 33-4 and then 65-8 after 15 overs before Samit Patel's 22 took them to 99 in 19.5 overs, still easily their lowest Twenty20 total.
Superstars skipper Chris Gayle smashed England out of sight, striking five sixes in an devastating unbeaten 65.
He and Andre Fletcher (32 not out) took just 12.4 overs to bring home the cash.
England, who nonchalantly swapped jokes as the teams stood for the Antiguan national anthem before the start, will go home with nothing.
The Superstars XI took $1m each on offer - with four of them taking home the money despite neither batting nor bowling.
The five remaining members of the winning squad share $1m, with their winning back-room staff members pocketing $1m as well. Finally, both the England and Wales Cricket Board and the West Indies Cricket Board each receive $3.5m.
Kieron Pollard celebrates after bowling Andrew Flintoff cheaply

The tourists had actually begun reasonably brightly with the bat after Kevin Pietersen had won the toss. Matt Prior struck a couple of clean boundaries as he and Ian Bell steered the tourists to 19-0 after three overs.
But Jerome Taylor bowled Bell with a fast and full delivery and two balls later Prior moved across his stumps, missed with his attempted swipe, and also had his stumps re-arranged.
Pietersen never got going, and the excellent Darren Sammy - an unsung seamer from St Lucia - flung himself onto his back in exultation after removing the England captain.
By then, Sammy had seen Owais Shah well caught at square leg off his bowling. And the wicket of Pietersen - almost a carbon copy of Prior's demise - left England in tatters at 33-5.
Kieron Pollard looked to be the weak link in the Superstars attack with his gentle medium pace. Flintoff possibly sensed that and connected cleanly with one rare boundary thumped down the ground.
He tried to do the same with the next ball, but a well-disguised slower ball did for him as he became the fourth of six England batsmen to be bowled.
It was a quiet evening for the England players' partners

All-rounders Paul Collingwood and Luke Wright were caught in the deep before Graeme Swann was bowled by spinner Sulieman Benn. Bankroller Sir Allen Stanford applauded each wicket with a beatific smile, though surely he would have hoped for a better contest than this.
When Patel was dropped on the boundary by Dave Mohammed off Pollard he had just five runs to his name but the let-off enabled him to hit the same bowler for two boundaries as England attempted a rally.
But he was run out in the penultimate over and Benn bowled last man Steve Harmison to finish with the wonderful figures of 3-16.
Superstars openers Gayle and Andre Fletcher had to weather an impressive hostile opening over from Harmison.
But as soon as Fletcher hit three fours off Stuart Broad's first over it was plain-sailing, with two fours and two Gayle sixes fired off Harmison's third over - which rather made a mockery of any complaints about the pitch.
The celebrations were in full flow among the home supporters long before the finish - with occasional crescendos greeting each Gayle six. He hit five in all, and appropriately the final one was the winning hit - deposited yards beyond the long-on fence - off England's best bowler, Flintoff.

**Sir X** · November 1, 2008, 08:57 PM

Good money earned

The Superstars XI took $1m each on offer - with four of them taking home the money despite neither batting nor bowling.
The five remaining members of the winning squad share $1m, with their winning back-room staff members pocketing $1m as well. Finally, both the England and Wales Cricket Board and the West Indies Cricket Board each receive $3.5m.

**Sir X** · November 1, 2008, 09:02 PM

Chris Gayle on Saturday's big showndown the HYPE before the beating.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1126121770/bctid1889922746

**Sir X** · November 1, 2008, 09:09 PM

Thank you Mr Stanford for your Vision ..nothing Lee chin or Stewart couldnt do but ..lack vision.

A peek at Sir Allen Stanford's motives
Garfield Myers, Editor-at-Large South Central Bureau
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Sir Allen Stanford (right foreground) talks to West Indies Cricket Board president Julian Hunte at the launch at Lord's cricket ground in London of the big US$20-million Twenty20 cricket match between England and the Stanford Superstars which will be played today. Members of the Stanford Legends are also pictured.
Among the most asked questions ahead of today's Stanford Twenty20 US$20-million game in Antigua is 'what's Stanford's angle?' and 'how will he get back his money?'
The first thing to appreciate is that Sir Allen Stanford is rotten rich. He is far from being the richest man in the world. But when you are a billionaire in US-dollar terms - his net worth is estimated at in excess of US$2 billion - you don't have to be.
It seems reasonable to suppose that if you have US$2 billion stashed away, US$20 million could appear to be of even less consequence than J$20,000 to a middle/upper income Jamaican.
The other thing is to listen to what Stanford - a 58-year-old Texan financier who is resident in St Croix and spends a great deal of his time in Antigua & Barbuda - says.
Stanford has consistently insisted that one of his prime reasons for investing so much of his money in Caribbean cricket over the last three years, is that he wants to "have fun" in the 'evening' of his life. But while doing so, he feels he can make money by building a worldwide television audience for Caribbean cricket and at the same time market the name of his Stanford financial group which manages US$50 billion globally.
"No matter what I do at this stage of my life, I want to have fun. At the same time, it has to have a business soundness behind it.," Stanford told journalists in Antigua in March during the Stanford Twenty20 regional tournament.
He has also insisted that he wants to lift Caribbean cricket out of amateurism into the professional age using the Twenty20 format of the game. The 'professionalising' of West Indies cricket could well end up being among the Texan billionaire's most enduring legacies.
He has nothing to prove to anybody but Stanford feels the need to change Caribbean cricket.
He clearly does things his way. And perhaps that more than anything else allows him to "have fun". He probably gets enormous enjoyment from the winner-takes-all concept. And we can only imagine the enormous titillation he must have had while displaying millions of dollars in hard cash at Lord's, the hollowed headquarters of cricket, during the ceremony to formalise the US$100-million deal spread over five years involving the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the England Cricket Board (ECB).
To say that the haughty London establishment felt put down, is to be mild. No surprise then that there is now a backlash and even talk of an ECB pull out from the arrangement with Stanford.
Can the Stanford concept make money? Clearly it won't immediately. But Stanford has insisted that over time it will.
"What I am good at is making money.," he boasted to journalists at a press briefing in Port of Spain in July following a banquet to celebrate Trinidad and Tobago's win in the 2008 regional Twenty20.
"In three years, we are going to be making money," he said of the deal with the ECB and the WICB, "we will generate about US$10 million this year off our TV and sports marketing... It will take me US$35m to get this programme off this year, but in three years we will be making money."

Stanford believes there is enormous potential for Twenty20 cricket on television and he makes no secret of his ambition to exploit near-virgin territory in the United States.
Hence, a project that cost him three-and-a-half million US dollars earlier this year, to take the Stanford Twenty20 tournament into the homes of the small US city of Fort Collins.
The key, says Stanford is to package cricket as entertainment.
"It is entertainment. It's like going to a movie, a prize fight. all this is, is entertainment," says Stanford. "Hundreds of millions of people watch the Super Bowl, they don't know a damn thing about (American) football, 130 million people watching in the States, 800 million around the world. At least two thirds of the people watching know nothing about American football, they watch it to see the commercials, and the half-time show. it's strictly entertainment," he claims.
Intriguingly, he sees nationalism as integral to the marketing of Caribbean cricket. Talk of Caribbean players changing national loyalties by moving from one Caribbean island to another to play in the Stanford Twenty20, visibly annoys him. "No, that ruins it, then they become mercenaries," he declared when asked the direct question in March. Similarly, he said, he would not countenance overseas players in the regional Stanford Twenty20.
There was nothing in the world of cricket to compare with the rivalry between the several nations making up the West Indies, said Stanford.
"What we have here is so unique, island against island competition. this is what everybody has to be clear about, no matter how the programme evolves worldwide and it is going to evolve, you are never going to replicate what we have in the Caribbean, you not going to have island against island.," he said.
Stanford has claimed that profits from his cricketing endeavours in the Caribbean will be pumped back into the development of Caribbean cricket. In July, Stanford estimated that over three years of involvement, he had already channelled a total of US$8 million to cricket-playing territories across the Caribbean for cricket development.
This is separate and apart from millions of dollars in prize money and tournament organisation and promotion after two seasons of the Stanford Twenty20 regional tournament.
Not all territories had used the money wisely, claimed Wes Hall former West Indies fast bowler and WICB president, a current Stanford Legend and member of the Twenty20 Board.
Under the arrangement now developed with the WICB and ECB both boards will get US$3.5 million each year as their cut from the annual US$20-million game. Stanford sees 'professionalisation' of Caribbean cricket and the development of an academy programme as essential elements that should flow from his money.
How, he asks, can somebody who works full time Monday to Friday as a bank teller, maximise his talents as a cricketer?
"How can he do that? He should be practising and training the game the whole year round. So all that's gonna change, these kids are going to be playing the game all year round. They are going to eat, breathe, sleep cricket," said Stanford of his dream for Caribbean cricket.
He makes it clear that marketing his financial group which operates in 136 countries is part of his motive.
The Stanford Group has long marketed itself through sport with a strong presence in golf, tennis, polo and sailing.
"We are conservative in our approach to investing. we handle money in a very hands-on, correct way. we want to be profiled to people in a way that is synonymous with success," said Stanford.
Sport allows that easy linkage to success. And in that drive, cricket particularly Caribbean cricket, is the new frontier.

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**Sir X** · November 2, 2008, 09:23 AM

Video commentary

Kevin Pietersen points the finger of blame after his England side were thrashed in the Stanford Twenty 20 for 20 match.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1126121770/bctid1892848338

Chris Gayle revels in victory in the Twenty 20 for 20 match as his Stanford Superstars made history in the Carribean.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1126121770/bctid1892845354

Andre Fletcher couldn't hide his delight after he helped earn the Stanford Superstars 20 million dollars.
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Nasser Hussain says that the post match fireworks display had more bang than England's performance in the Carribean.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1126121770/bctid1894263719

**Nemesis** · November 2, 2008, 10:11 AM

Here are some of the Superstars batting highlights

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=38oX0sAwapo

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6ssIR0XJU

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=izMdThdz1y4

Eng v SSS
ESPN2 Sunday November 2-4pm

**Sir X** · November 2, 2008, 10:50 AM

Thank you Nemesis , you do serve some purpose on the site.

Thanks again.

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