Home  Sports Stanford Super Series: Let's get it on!
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
After months of publicity, planning, and legal wrangling, the Stanford Super Series is set to wrap up on Saturday November 1 with the US $20 million purse match between the Stanford Superstars and England at the Stanford Cricket Ground .
The Series is the result of a cooperative agreement between Sir Allen Stanford, an American business tycoon, as well as the England & Wales Cricket Board, and the West Indies Cricket Board.
The series featured six matches and culminates with Saturday’s historic match for the richest team prize for a single sporting match.
The Stanford Superstars is a team selected from the best of the best of the regional Stanford Twenty20 Cup competitions under the captaincy of Chris Gayle, and they face a full-fledged England team under the leadership of Kevin Pietersen.
“Right now, we are getting down to crunch time, and there must be more than a few butterflies in the pits of everyone’s stomach,” Gayle said.
Gayle praised the six-week training camp which the Superstars underwent in Antigua under head coach Eldine Baptiste with assistance from Roger Harper and Cardigan Connor.
“It’s been the longest camp that I have been involved in, and we have got some benefits out of it,” he said.
“At the same time, preparation is vital for a game like this. . .It’s Twenty20 cricket and anything can happen, and this version of the game can be pretty exciting, so we need to be ready.”
Squads:
STANFORD SUPERSTARS (from): Chris Gayle (captain), Sylvester Joseph (vice captain), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Lennox Cush, Travis Dowlin, Rayad Emrit, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Chad Hampson, Lindon James, Dave Mohammed, Kieron Pollard, Daren Powell, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor.
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