2008 Stanford Super Series

The 2008 Stanford Super Series was a cricket tournament sponsored by Texan
2008 Stanford Super
billionaire Allen Stanford. The tournament was played between 25 October – 1
Series
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. Administrator(s) West Indies
Before it began, the tournament was threatened with cancellation due to a row Cricket Board
between Digicel, the West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) main sponsor, and and Allen
Stanford. Digicel argued that it should get sponsorship rights because it is WICB's Stanford
sponsorship rights holder and that the tournament was officially sanctioned by the Cricket format Twenty20
WICB. Tournament One off match
format(s) with warmup
All 2008 Super Series matches took place at the Stanford Cricket Ground in
matches
Antigua, and started at 5:30 pm local time (9:30 pm in the United Kingdom). All
games were aired on Sky Sports in the UK.[1] Host(s) Antigua and
Barbuda
Champions Stanford

Contents Superstars
Participants 4
Qualification
Matches played 6
Summary
Matches Most runs Andre Fletcher
Exhibition Matches (147)
Trans-Atlantic Twenty20 Champions Cup Most wickets Sherwin Ganga
$20 million match
(6)
Squads
2008 Stanford SuperStars
2008 English squad
2008 Trinidad and Tobago Squad
2008 Middlesex Squad
Commercial dispute
External links
References

Qualification
The Stanford Superstars was a squad selected from the best players in the Stanford 20/20 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 theTwenty20 Cup 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.[2] Criticism was also levelled at the floodlights in the Antigua pitch, which were low enough to obstruct the vision of
fielding players, with Middlesex captain Shaun Udal stating "I have not known a ground where the visibility is as bad".[3] The
behaviour of organiser 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[4] The England team was later hit by a stomach
bug, leading Kevin Pietersen to declare that he was looking forward to the tournament's completion.[5] Before the tournament ended,
the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that they would be reviewing the five-year contract that they had signed with
[6]
Stanford, bringing into question their participation in future tournaments

However, the Trinidad and Tobago v England game was described as 'thrilling'.[7] The tournament received a large amount of media
coverage whilst it was extremely popular with fans in the West Indies.[8] Commentators were generally positive about the success of
the tournament within its host venue, with Jonathan Agnew claiming that it was organised significantly better than the previous
World Cup, also held in the West Indies.[9]

Matches

Exhibition Matches
25 October Stanford Superstars v Trinidad & Superstars won by 22 runs
2008 146/5 (20 overs) Tobago Stanford Cricket Ground ,
scorecard 124/8 (20 overs) Coolidge , Antigua
Sylvester Joseph 45* Justin Guillen 31 Umpires: Steve Davis and Simon
Samuel Badree 2/20 Sulieman Benn 2/15 Taufel

26 October England v Middlesex England won by 12 runs

2008 121/4 (20 overs) 109/4 (20 overs) Stanford Cricket Ground ,
scorecard Owais Shah 39* Dawid Malan 42* Coolidge , Antigua
Murali Kartik 2/27 Ryan Sidebottom 1/5 Umpires: Asad Rauf and Rudi
Stuart Broad 1/13 Koertzen

28 October England v Trinidad and England won by 1 run

2008 141/6 (20 overs) Tobago Stanford Cricket Ground ,
scorecard 140/9 (20 overs) Coolidge , Antigua
Kevin Pietersen 44 Denesh Ramdin 37 Umpires: Asad Rauf and Simon
Sherwin Ganga 4/23 Andrew Flintof f 3/30 Taufel

30 October Stanford Superstars v Middlesex Superstars win by 58 runs

2008 173/4 (20 overs) 115 (17.3 overs) Stanford Cricket Ground ,
scorecard Andre Fletcher 90 Eoin Morgan Coolidge , Antigua
Shaun Udal 1/24 Dave Mohammed 2/10 Umpires: Asad Rauf and SJ Davis
Darren Sammy 2/14

Trans-Atlantic Twenty20 Champions Cup

27 October Trinidad and Tobago v Middlesex Trinidad and Tobago won by
2008 117/8 (20 overs) 5 wickets
scorecard 122/5 (19.2 overs) Stanford Cricket Ground ,
Denesh Ramdin 41 Neil Dexter 39 Coolidge , Antigua
Dawid Malan 2/11 Ravi Rampaul 4/25 Umpires: Steve Davis and Rudi
Tim Murtagh 2/18 Koertzen
Player of the match: Ravi Rampaul

$20 million match

1 November England v Stanford Superstars Stanford Superstars won by
2008 99 (19.5 overs) 101/0 (12.4 overs) 10 wickets
 scorecard Samit Patel 22 Chris Gayle 65* Stanford Cricket Ground ,
Sulieman Benn 3/16 Andre Fletcher 32* Coolidge , Antigua
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen and
Simon Taufel
Player of the match: Darren
Sammy

Squads

2008 Stanford SuperStars

On 14 August 2008, the All-Stars selection panel, which was led by cricketing legend Sir Viv Richards, and which included fellow
West Indies cricketing luminaries as Sir Everton Weekes, Curtly Ambrose, Lance Gibbs, Richie Richardson, Andy Roberts and
[10]
Courtney Walsh, announced 17 players who would play under the Stanford SuperStars colours in the Super Series.

Chris Gayle (c)

Daren Powell
Jerome Taylor
Sylvester Joseph (Vice-captain)
Chad Hampson
Dave Mohammed
Kieron Pollard
Rayad Emrit
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Lennox Cush
Andre Fletcher
Sulieman Benn
Lionel Baker
Lindon James

Support Staff:
Coach, Head: Eldine Baptiste
Coach, Asst: Roger Harper
Coach, Fielding: Julien Fountain
Coach, Manager: Cardigan Connor
Analyst: Robin Singh
Trainer: Hector Martinez
Physiotherapist: Kim Jackson
Physiotherapist Julio Gonsalves
Physical Therapist: Virgil Browne

(Dwayne Bravo (injury), and Xavier Marshall (failed drug test)[11] were named to the initial team under the initial
selection procedures, but withdrew before the Series was played. Darren Sammy and Travis Dowlin were named to
replace them in the squad.[12] )

2008 English squad

On 9 September 2008, three weeks after the Superstars squad was named, the England Cricket Board announced their 15-man squad
for the 2008 Super Series.[13]
Kevin Pietersen, Hampshire, (captain)
James Anderson, Lancashire
Ian Bell, Warwickshire
Ravi Bopara, Essex
Stuart Broad, Nottinghamshire
Paul Collingwood, Durham
Alastair Cook, Essex
Andrew Flintoff, Lancashire
Stephen Harmison, Durham
Samit Patel, Nottinghamshire
Matt Prior, Sussex
Owais Shah, Middlesex
Graeme Swann, Nottinghamshire
Ryan Sidebottom, Nottinghamshire
Luke Wright, Sussex

2008 Trinidad and Tobago Squad

Rishi Bachan
Samuel Badree
Darren Bravo
Kevon Cooper
Daron Cruickshank
Daren Ganga (captain)
Sherwin Ganga
Justin Guillen
Amit Jaggernauth
Richard Kelly
William Perkins
Denesh Ramdin
Ravi Rampaul
Lendl Simmons
Navin Stewart

2008 Middlesex Squad

Neil Carter
Neil Dexter
Steven Finn
Billy Godleman
Tyron Henderson
Ed Joyce
Murali Kartik
Dawid Malan
Eoin Morgan
Tim Murtagh
David Nash
Alan Richardson
Ben Scott
Andrew Strauss
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.[14]

External links
Stanford2020.com

References
1. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20081006005509/http://www .nothirdman.co.uk/stanford-super-series-s
chedule.aspx). Archived from the original (http://www.nothirdman.co.uk/stanford-super-series-schedule.aspx)on 6
October 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2008.
2. [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/middlesex/7697359.stm)
3. [2] (http://www.cricket365.com/story/0,18305,15293_4418615,00.html)
4. [3] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7694585.stm)
5. [4] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7697201.stm)
6. [5] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7697860.stm)
7. [6] (http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/stanfordtwenty20/content/story/375754.html)
8. [7] (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/twenty20/3363648/England-humbled-by-West-Indies-passion-in-Stanfor
d-Super-Series-Cricket.html)
9. [8] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7704989.stm)
10. http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/stanford/stanford-20-20-superstars-squad-announced,301889,EN.htmlArchived
(https://web.archive.org/web/20080917184217/http://www .ecb.co.uk/news/england/stanford/stanford-20-20-superstar
s-squad-announced%2C301889%2CEN.html)17 September 2008 at theWayback Machine
11. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/current/story/370219.html
12. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/west_indies/7561568.stm
13. http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/stanford/stanford-super-series-squad,302377,EN.html
14. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/stanfordtwenty20/content/current/story/373266.html

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