LONDON, April 19: Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has offered to put up $100 million for England to play five Twenty20 games against his West Indies All-Star team.

Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Giles Clarke had said on Thursday the prospect of England taking part in a winner-takes-all $20m match in the West Indies was “very likely”.

The first $20 million game would be on Independence Day in Antigua on Nov 1 and Stanford then wants to alternate venues annually between his own purpose-built ground and Lord’s.—Reuters

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