Massive regional tournament to be unveiled
Published:Thursday | February 11, 2010 | 5:57 PM
A massive Twenty/Twenty tournament to replace the now defunct Stanford initiative is set to be unveiled shortly by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
The newly formed Barbados Today online publication reported today that the logistics were yet to be sorted, but July had been identified as a date for the tournament, which is expected to become an annual affair.
No sponsor has been named, but the WICB are said to be in talks with a potential financier.
Like the Stanford Twenty/Twenty, the tournament is also expected to offer players lucrative rewards.
There has been no regional Twenty/Twenty tournament since 2008, when the last Stanford championship was staged in Antigua.
Sir Allen Stanford, the billionaire Texan who bankrolled the tournament, was last year charged by US authorities over a US$7 billion fraud scheme and is currently awaiting trial in a Texan jail.