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The 2008 Stanford Super Series
Stanford Super Series
The Stanford Super Series were a series of Twenty20 cricket matches, sponsored by Sir Allen Stanford. The main game of the Series matched the English national cricket team against an all-star team from the Caribbean, called the Stanford Superstars....

was a cricket tournament sponsored by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford

Allen Stanford

Robert Allen Stanford is a former prominent financier and sponsor of professional sports who is in prison awaiting trial on charges his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud. Stanford was the chairman of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of Companies. A fifth-generation...

. The tournament was played between 25 October-1 November consisting of 5 warm-up matches and a $US 20 million for the grand finale. This final match was played between the Stanford Superstars and England. Before it began, the tournament was threatened with cancellation due to a row between Digicel

Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Central America, and the Caribbean regions. The company is owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien, is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica. It provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean...

, the West Indies Cricket Board

West Indies Cricket Board

The West Indies Cricket Board is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in the West Indies...

's (WICB) main sponsor, and Stanford. Digicel argued that it should get sponsorship rights because it is WICB's sponsorship rights holder and that the tournament was officially sanctioned by the WICB.

All 2008 Super Series matches took place at the Stanford Cricket Ground

Stanford Cricket Ground

The Stanford Cricket Ground, colloquially known as "Sticky Wicket Stadium", is a cricket ground in Osbourn, Saint George Parish, Antigua. It was previously known as the Airport Cricket Ground, before it was taken over by Allen Stanford and rebuilt in 2004...

in Antigua

Antigua

Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...

, and started at 5:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

). All games were aired on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

in the UK.

Qualification

The Stanford Superstars was a squad selected from the best players in the Stanford 20/20

Stanford 20/20

The Stanford 20/20 Tournament was a cricket tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was held first in July and August 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda and the same place the year after...

competition. England competed in the first year of a five year contract to be involved in the tournament. Trinidad and Tobago qualified as the winners of the Stanford 20/20 whilst Middlesex Crusaders qualified as winners of the Twenty20 Cup

Twenty20 Cup

The Twenty20 Cup was a cricket competition for English and Welsh county clubs.In 2010, it has been replaced by Friends Provident t20 as the domestic Twenty20 competition.-History:...

in England and Wales.

Summary

The tournament was seen to have been commenced successfully, though pitch conditions meant that its opening matches were low-scoring. Criticism was also levelled at the floodlights in the Antigua

Antigua

pitch, which were low enough to obstruct the vision of fielding players, with Middlesex captain Shaun Udal

Shaun Udal

Shaun David Udal is an English cricketer. An off spin bowler and lower-middle order batsman, he was a member of England's Test team for their tours to Pakistan and India in 2005/06.-International career:...

stating "I have not known a ground where the visibility is as bad". The behaviour of organiser Allen Stanford

Allen Stanford

was also questioned, particularly after he offended a number of England players by acting flirtatiously with their wives during a match, actions for which he later apologised The England team was later hit by a stomach bug, leading Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...

to declare that he was looking forward to the tournament's completion. Before the tournament ended, the England and Wales Cricket Board

England and Wales Cricket Board

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales. It was created on 1 January 1997 combining the roles of the Test and County Cricket Board, the National Cricket Association and the Cricket Council...

(ECB) announced that they would be reviewing the five year contract that they had signed with Stanford, bringing into question their participation in future tournaments

However, the Trinidad and Tobago v England game was described as 'thrilling'. The tournament received a large amount of media coverage whilst it was extremely popular with fans in the West Indies. Commentators were generally positive about the success of the tournament within its host venue, with Jonathan Agnew

Jonathan Agnew

Jonathan Philip Agnew is an English cricket broadcaster and former professional cricketer. He was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire and educated at Uppingham School. He is nicknamed "Aggers", and, less commonly, "Spiro"....

claiming that it was organised significantly better than the with the previous World Cup

2007 Cricket World Cup

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format...

, also held in the West Indies.

Exhibition Matches

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Trans-Atlantic Twenty20 Champions Cup

$20 million match

2008 Stanford SuperStars

On August 14 2008, the All-Stars selection panel, which was led by cricketing legend Sir Viv Richards

Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...

, and which included fellow West Indies cricketing luminaries as Sir Everton Weekes

Everton Weekes

Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE is a leading former West Indian cricketer. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket.-Youth and early career:...

, Curtly Ambrose

Curtly Ambrose

Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose is a former West Indian cricketer. His skill was as a right-arm fast bowler, especially in partnership with Courtney Walsh...

, Lance Gibbs

Lance Gibbs

Lancelot Richard Gibbs is a former West Indies cricketer, one of the most successful spin bowlers in Test cricket history. He took 309 Test wickets, only the second player to pass 300, the first spinner to pass that milestone, and had an exceptional economy rate of under two runs per over...

, Richie Richardson

Richie Richardson

Richard Benjamin Richardson is a retired West Indies cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team.Richardson was born in Five Islands Village, Antigua. He began his career with the Leewards Islands in 1982 as an opener and after his second season he was called up by the West...

, Andy Roberts and Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh

Courtney Andrew Walsh is a former international cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches...

, announced 17 players who would play under the Stanford SuperStars colours in the Super Series.

Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer who currently plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained the West Indies' side from 2007 to 2010. He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors and the Kolkata Knight...

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

)

Daren Powell

Daren Brent Lyle Powell is a West Indian cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Jamaica. A right-arm fast medium bowler, he has played Test matches and One Day Internationals for the West Indian cricket team. Despite starting his cricketing career as a number 3 batsman, Powell is a genuine...

Jerome Taylor

Jerome Everton Taylor is a Jamaican born West Indian cricketer. He led the fast bowling attack comprising Dwayne Bravo, Daren Powell and Ian Bradshaw at the World Cup...

Sylvester Joseph

Sylvester Cleofoster Joseph is a West Indian cricketer who has played in five Tests and 13 ODIs, from 2000 to 2005. He captained the West Indies in one of those ODI games due to the more experienced players being unavailable courtesy of contract disputes...

(Vice-captain)

Chad Hampson

Dave Mohammed

Dave Mohammed is a West Indian cricketer. He is a left-arm chinaman bowler, and bats left-handed.Having played only three first-class matches, he was called up to the squad for the third Test against South Africa in March 2001, but did not make his Test debut until January 2004, again against...

Kieron Pollard

Kieron Adrian Pollard is an international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard provides medium-fast pace bowling and big-hitting from the middle-order. After shining during the 2009 Champions League Twenty20, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and...

Rayad Emrit

Rayad Ryan Emrit is a West Indian cricketer. He is an allrounder who is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast seamer. He was the pro at Westhoughton Cricket club for the 2006 season.He represents Trinidad in the West Indian domestic cricket and on January 12th was named in the 14-member...

Ramnaresh Sarwan

Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan is a West Indian cricketer of Indo-Guyanese origin and a member of the West Indies cricket team....

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean in the West Indies team to play 100 Tests for the West Indies and has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals...

Lennox Cush

Lennox Joseph Cush in Georgetown, Guyana is a West Indies cricketer who played for Guyana in Stanford 2020. However, he has also represented U.S.A...

Andre Fletcher

Andre Fletcher is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and often keeps wicket.Fletcher played for the West Indian cricket team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka...

Sulieman Benn

Sulieman Jamaal Benn is a West Indian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies and first-class cricket for Barbados....

Lionel Baker

Lionel Sionne Baker is a West Indian cricketer who has played first-class cricket for the Leeward Islands. He is the first person from Montserrat to have represented the West Indies at Test cricket.-Personal life:...

Lindon James

Support Staff:

Coach, Head: Eldine Baptiste

Eldine Baptiste

Eldine Ashworth Elderfield Baptiste appeared in 10 Tests and 43 One Day Internationals for the West Indies....

Coach, Asst: Roger Harper

Roger Harper

Roger Andrew Harper is a former West Indies cricketer turned coach, who played both Test and ODI cricket for the West Indies...

Coach, Fielding: Julien Fountain

Julien Fountain

Julien Fountain is an English professional cricket coach and former Great Britain Olympic Baseball player...

Coach, Manager: Cardigan Connor

Cardigan Connor

Cardigan Adolphus Connor is a Anguillan born former English cricketer. Connor was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.-Career:...

Analyst: Robin Singh

Trainer: Hector Martinez

Physiotherapist: Kim Jackson

Physiotherapist Julio Gonsalves

Physical Therapist: Virgil Browne

(Dwayne Bravo

Dwayne Bravo

Dwayne James John Bravo is a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed pace bowler, Bravo is expected to play a significant role in attempts by the West Indies to return to international prominence in the sport....

(injury), and Xavier Marshall

Xavier Marshall

Xavier Melbourne Marshall is a West Indies cricketer. He is a batsman and a talented fielder. However in recent years he has failed to live up to his previous reputation as a promising young cricketer, and his progress in international cricket has since stagnated as a result of much inconsistency...

(failed drug test) were named to the initial team under the initial selection procedures, but withdrew before the Series was played. Darren Sammy

Darren Sammy

Darren Julius Garvey Sammy is a Saint Lucian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies. He is a right-handed batsman and a fast-medium bowler. On making his One Day International debut against Bangladesh in 2004, Sammy became the first person from the island of St. Lucia...

and
Travis Dowlin

were named to replace them in the squad.)

2008 English Squad

On September 9 2008, three weeks after the Superstars squad was named, the England Cricket Board announced their 15-man squad for the 2008 Super Series.

Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...

, Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

, (captain)

James Anderson

James Anderson (cricketer)

James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...

, Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

Ian Bell, Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

Ravi Bopara, Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...

Stuart Broad

Stuart Christopher John Broad is a cricketer who plays Test and One Day International cricket for England and is currently the captain of their Twenty20 team...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

Paul Collingwood

Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...

, Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was...

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

, Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

Andrew Flintoff

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE is a former English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club, England and the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. A tall fast bowler, batsman and slip fielder, Flintoff according to the ICC rankings was consistently rated amongst the top...

, Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Stephen Harmison, Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

Samit Patel

Samit Rohit Patel is an English cricketer of Indian descent. He plays first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He made his One Day International debut for England in August 2008, and three years later played his first Twenty20 International in 2011.-Early and personal...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Matt Prior, Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...

Owais Shah

Owais Alam Shah is an English cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he played for Middlesex between 1996-2010, before joining Essex CCC in the winter of 2010. He has represented England in all forms of the games.Between 2001 and 2009, he played 71 ODIs and 17 Twenty20 Internationals...

, Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Ryan Sidebottom

Ryan Jay Sidebottom is an English cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Yorkshire. He is a primarily a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Sidebottom played his first Test match in 2001 against Pakistan, but failed to take a wicket and was dropped for six years...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Luke Wright, Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

2008 Trinidad and Tobago Squad

Rishi Bachan

Rishi Bachan in BarrackporeTrinidad. His bowling style is slow left arm offbreak, and is a right-handed batsman. He is a West Indies cricketer who played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. He played at Stanford Cricket Ground, Coolidge, Antigua on 25 October 2008 where he took 1 wicket...

Samuel Badree

Darren Bravo

Darren Bravo

Darren Michael Bravo is a West Indian cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago and has appeared for the West Indies cricket team in One Day International cricket. A left-handed batsman,is slow, focused and determined...

Kevon Cooper

Daron Cruickshank

Daron Cruickshank

Daron Cruickshank is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships.-Mixed Martial Arts Career:...

Daren Ganga

Daren Ganga is a West Indian cricketer of East Indian descent. He is a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm offbreak bowler. After debuting as a 19 year old he has found himself in and out of the West Indies team, playing regularly for and at times captaining the West Indies A...

(captain)

Sherwin Ganga

Sherwin Ganga

Sherwin Ganga is a cricketer who plays for Trinidad and Tobago. An offspin bowling allrounder, Ganga debuted in 2003/04 and is the brother of Daren Ganga.-External links:*...

Justin Guillen

Justin Christopher Guillen is a West Indian cricketer who plays for the Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team. He made his debut for the side in the 2008 Stanford Super Series, and has since played over fifteen first-class matches. In May 2010, he was selected to play for the West Indies...

Amit Jaggernauth

Amit Sheldon Jaggernauth is a West Indian cricketer who plays for Trinidad and Tobago. He is primarily an off spin bowler. He mainly plays first-class cricket, having made only two List A cricket appearances for Trinidad and Tobago to date...

Richard Kelly

Richard Kelly (cricketer)

Richard Alexander Kelly, born 19 February 1984 in Trinidad, is a West Indian cricketer. He plays first-class and List A cricket for Trinidad and Tobago. He is known for his hard hitting and accurate swing bowling. He was named the best allrounder in the West Indies after his performances in the...

William Perkins

William Perkins (cricketer)

William Perkins is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who occasionally plays as wicketkeeper....

Denesh Ramdin

Denesh Ramdin is a West Indian cricketer of Indian descent. He is a right-handed batsman who generally occupies the position of wicketkeeper.He is seen by selectors and fans as a replacement in terms of playing style for Jeff Dujon...

Ravi Rampaul

Ravindranath Rampaul is a West Indian cricketer. He is the first quick bowler of Indian descent to represent West Indies at international level, playing Tests, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals...

Lendl Simmons

Lendl Mark Platter Simmons is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman, an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler and a part-time wicket-keeper....

Navin Stewart

2008 Middlesex Squad

Neil Carter

Neil Dexter

Neil Dexter

Neil John Dexter is a South African-born English cricketer, currently playing for Middlesex.He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium bowler...

Steven Finn

Steven Finn (cricketer)

Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...

Billy Godleman

Billy Ashley Godleman is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm leg-spin bowler.-Early life:...

Tyron Henderson

Tyron Henderson is a South African cricketer.Henderson has represented South Africa in a Twenty20 International. An all-rounder, Henderson played for Middlesex. He was purchased by the Rajasthan Royals for whopping $650,000 in the Indian Premier League Season 2 Auction...

Ed Joyce

Edmund Christopher Joyce is an Irish cricketer who has played for both the Irish and English national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm bowler of medium pace, Joyce is widely regarded as one of the...

Murali Kartik

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Dawid Malan

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Eoin Morgan

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Tim Murtagh

Tim Murtagh is an English professional cricketer.Murtagh is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He first shone in the 2000 Under-19s World Cup. Though he is first and foremost a seam bowler, Murtagh has progressed with his batting, and has stepped in on many occasions to...

David Nash

Alan Richardson

Ben Scott

Ben Scott

Benjamin James Matthew Scott is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Isleworth, Middlesex.-Early career:...

Andrew Strauss

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Shaun Udal

(captain)

Commercial dispute

Digicel

, who sponsors the West Indies Cricket Board, filed suit to halt the Stanford Super Series. They claimed that due to their deal with the West Indies Cricket Board, that they were due certain advertising and broadcasting rights that weren't being granted to them. The response from the West Indies Board, and from the representatives of the Super Series was that the Stanford Superstars were an unofficial team, and thus the Digicel agreement did not come into play. Digicel won the suit, in front of the High Court in London, England. However, they later reached a deal with Stanford Super Series officials, that allowed the tournament to continue for at least three years.

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