STANFORD 20/20

The 'Stanford 20/20' Tournament is a cricket tournament which was first held in July and August 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Oval, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. It is a variety of the popular Twenty20 format first introduced in English cricket in 2003.
This format of the game was devised and made possible mainly by Sir Allen Stanford, a Texan billionaire with Antiguan roots. He has spent many millions of US$ in the hope of achieving his dream of bringing West Indian cricket back to life. 19 teams played in a straight knock-out tournament to try and achieve first place and with it first prize - US$1 million. Twenty-one (21) teams will compete in the 2008 Tournament (the original 19 plus Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands).

Contents

Teams

Qualifying

Round of 16 onwards

Winner

External links

Teams

★ Anguilla

★ Antigua & Barbuda

★ Bahamas

★ Barbados

★ Bermuda

★ British Virgin Islands

★ Cayman Islands

★ Dominica

★ Grenada

★ Guyana

★ Jamaica

★ Montserrat

★ Nevis

★ St. Kitts

★ St. Lucia

★ St. Maarten

★ St. Vincent & the Grenadines

★ Trinidad & Tobago

★ USVI

Qualifying

In the three Qualifying matches United States Virgin Islands beat St. Maarten by 48 runs, Cayman Islands beat Bahamas by 57 runs and St. Lucia beat British Virgin Islands by 7 wickets.

Round of 16 onwards

Winner

In an amazing run chase against Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana emerged the stanford 20/20 champion 2006

External links

★ Official website