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| Countries |  Antigua and Barbuda |
|---|---|
| Format | Twenty20 |
| Tournament format | One off match with warm ups |
| Number of teams | 4 |
The Stanford Super Series was a series of Twenty20 cricket matches in 2008, sponsored by 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.
The prize money awarded in the tournament was winner-take-all; the players for the winning team in the yearly game took home $20 million prize money, and the losing players did not earn anything. The domestic West Indies and England Twenty20 champions competed for the Champions Cup, as well as playing in a series of other exhibition matches with the Superstars and England. The tournament collapsed following the arrest (and subsequent conviction) of Allen Stanford for an $8 billion fraud, part of which funded the prize money for the Super Series.[1]
- ^ Anna Driver and Simon Evans (17 February 2009). "Stanford, aides failed to appear for testimony: U.S". Reuters. Retrieved 10 January 2015.