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Billionaire at rescue, windies cricket to revive


Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
O I believe, in yesterday!!

Although Paul McCartney sang above words for a lady, West Indies cricket too matches them perfectly. Yesterday - they were the best, be on any pitch against anyone. Today - they rarely taste the sweet called success. no wonder, windies fans want to stick back to the yesterday they had..

80s, 90s, 2000 till 2007, west indies cricket has anything but gone down.

Wake Up! says Allen Stanford. Like all AllenStanfordCricket.jpgtrue businessmen, he sees blessing in disguise. Man believes Caribbean Islands still have the best cricketers than anywhere in the World, & thus West Indies cricket can rejoin the domination they once had over International cricket. He has given away one hundred million US dollars to WICB, to be spent on coming three Stanford 20/20 International tournaments. Few more professional leagues will be developed for local cricketers to harness their bat-ball talent. For those who don't know - underline that same Texas businessman had financed first ever stanford 20/20 tournament in West Indies last year ($28million), which was won by Guyana.

That's not all. South Africa team were to play a Stanford Super Star XI in a twenty20 game last year, which never happened. But this year, several cricket boards are in talk with Allen Stanford to send their national cricket team. Prize - $5Million with winner taking all.

New cricket teams like Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Cuba will be making their debut through these stanford twenty20 tournaments in caribbean. The proposed 2nd installment of the local 20 over cricket tournament will be played from 25th January 2008 to 24th February.

To add little more information (n deadline to test progress), lets address to the West Indies vs Australia 4 test match series to be played in Caribbean May 2008 (schedule). That series was were Australia started dominating world cricket, & thus - I believe if west indies can manage to win that proposed 2008 tour by Australia - they'll have major boost towards regaining the YESTERDAY they're longing for..

What better test, than testing against the best!




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