English cricket’s nervous new year may become a little more fraught after reports that Allen Stanford has threatened to walk away from the sport. Vodafone announced yesterday that its association with the national team will end when its contract expires in 13 months’ time.
Via TimesOnline
19 Oct, 2008
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England have been ejected from a gravy train they started rolling. Desperate to take advantage of the Twenty20 phenomenon, English administrators are in serious danger not only of being frozen out but of becoming a laughing stock.
Via Independent
The England and Wales Cricket Board are consulting with the game’s stakeholders on their plans to reshape the domestic game. The ECB are keen to launch an English version of the Indian Premier League which would include the world’s top players and teams from abroad - possibly the IPL winners and a West Indies all-star [...]