Superstars scoop $1 million

Superstars scoop $1 million

2 Nov 2008

The Superstars team embarrassed England in the final of the Stanford Super Series as they won by 10 wickets and with it $1 million each.

Four of the Superstars team didn’t even bat or bowl in the one-sided victory, but along with their team-mates they won the lucrative prize-money offered up by Texan millionaire Allen Stanford.

England were skittled for a miserly 99 with spinner Sulieman Benn claiming 3-16. Chris Gayle and Andre Fletcher then chased down the total with with 44 balls to spare. Gayle romped to 65* of 45 balls, which included five sixes – the final one bringing up the victory.

England 99 all out in 19.5 overs (Samit Patel 22, Sulieman Benn 3-16)

Stanford Superstars 101 without loss after 12.4 overs (Chris Gayle 65*, Andre Fletcher 32*)

For full scorecard click here.


23 Comments

  • 1.grant10: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:03 am

    dragons

  • 2.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:03 am

    WAG groping dragon

  • 3.Noodles: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:03 am

    Flying Beans

  • 4.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:04 am

    # grant10: u win

  • 5.grant10: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:04 am

    #2 Big Hit: 2nd for the day princess meredith

  • 6.grant10: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:05 am

    #4 Big Hit: lets hope the eng rugby team suffer the same fate come nov 22nd!

  • 7.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:18 am

    #6 grant10: ha, doubtful

  • 8.Cricketlover: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:19 am

    I’m so glad the greedy KP didn’t win the cash! Whoop whoop!

  • 9.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:21 am

    The greed got to the english team and they thought they could put on 400 runs

  • 10.carol: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:35 am

    #5 grant10: Morning,….. could the answer be that you are two hours ahead of us and I did have a very, very late night.

    Looked for Butch James in every pub, bar and club in Bath (well nearly), thought he might have been drowning his sorrows after Bath RFC were knocked out of the EDF cup on Friday!!!

  • 11.carol: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:36 am

    All in all a bit embarrasing then………………

    #6 grant10: It won’t be that easy!!

  • 12.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:38 am

    #10 carol: I’m pretty sure he’s 7,000 miles away :)

  • 13.carol: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 11:56 am

    #12 Big Hit: You know, I was wondering how far Cape Town was from here!!!!

  • 14.carol: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 12:11 pm

    #12 Big Hit: No wonder I couldn’t find him!

  • 15.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 12:16 pm

    #13 carol: I thought he was in barbados, was just guessing on the 7,000

  • 16.tokolosi: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 16:01 pm

    west indian cricket deserves this money, unlike the fat cat england and wales guys!

  • 17.FrontRow: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 17:15 pm

    #16 tokolosi: This is the worst possible thing that can happen to West indies cricket. These new millionaires have no incentive to succeed. They have taken away their drive…..

  • 18.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 17:41 pm

    $1,000,000 each? Per player? Surely not…

  • 19.racheltjiedebeer: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 19:19 pm

    #18 wooden spoon: $20mil total. Winner takes all.

  • 20.fish out of water: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 19:19 pm

    what a choke by the poms.

    apparently pieterson said to chris gayle that he didn’t need the money.

    i guess the superstars wanted it more than the fat cat poms.

    seriously how much are the poms making if they don’t need half a million quid? actually that would be around 600,000 pounds now with the exchange rate.

  • 21.racheltjiedebeer: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 19:29 pm

    They should’ve have played a world XI instead of the lame poms.

  • 22.coma: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 22:28 pm

    man, this must have been the best movie i’ve seen in years, KP was brilliant, would have given him an oscar, deserved it just as much as that corky from Rain Man!!!

  • 23.Mbhubesi: Reply to this comment
    2 Nov 2008, 23:07 pm

    The Poms are Sulking Dragons!! More focussed on Stanford being gentlemanly to their Wags. You have to respect what Stanford is doing for West Indian cricket though. After years of behing the secenes work at grassroot level, he is finally being noticed.
    As for the POms, their short-lived honeymoon surrounding the apointment of KP as captain may be coming to an end.

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