Antigua ready for Stanford curtain-raiser
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on October 28, 2008
Trinidad are familiar with Stanford’s riches, having made away with a million of his dollars for winning last season’s Stanford 2020. They were narrowly beaten by Guyana in the first edition in 2006, and so have a pedigree in this format that few teams can match. They have, however, been deprived of valuable match practice in recent days, after their warm-up game against Barbados was washed out by heavy rain on Wednesday.
The team’s success has also had an unfortunate knock-on effect, however, with three of their key players - Dave Mohammad, Rayad Emrit and Kieron Pollard - being plucked from the squad to join the Stanford Superstars team. They do, however, retain a core of players with international experience, including the captain, Daren Ganga, who led West Indies for part of their tour of England in 2007.
The Stanford Superstars side is hardly packed to the rafters with big names, however. Gayle is a world-class batsman, as are his top-order colleagues Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan, while Daren Powell, Darren Sammy and Jerome Taylor have been steady performers for West Indies for several seasons. But the remainder of the squad is made up of players with reputations to build rather than defend, including the wicketkeeper Lindon James, who leapfrogged both Denesh Ramdin and Carlton Baugh on the strength of an unbeaten 73 from 37 balls for St Vincent against St Maarten last season.
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