Stanford Super Series 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. Allen Stanford proposed emphasizing Twenty20 cricket as a way to promote cricket in the West Indies. He created the Stanford 20/20, a yearly tournament featuring teams from the island nations that made up the West Indies. From the first edition of his tournament in 2006 he aimed to have the best players from his tournament play as a team against an international team. Initially South Africa had
Allen Stanford withdrew from talks with Stanford on sponsorship. On February 20, 2009, the ECB announced it had severed its ties with Stanford and cancelled all contracts with him. Stanford owned two newspaper businesses in Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis, both called "The Sun". Following the scandal, both newspapers put workers on notice that their full operations would cease in April 2010. Stanford owned Maiden Island in Antigua and Barbuda. The case was featured on an October 2018 episode of "Swindled", a podcast dealing with white-collar crime. Allen Stanford Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950) is an American