Where else can a team get $11 million for winning just one game? It is the Stanford Twenty 20 that is making the news and Why not?
This Proposal from Stanford has been on the ICC table for quite some time now but has not found any forward movement since it has to be carried with a 7-3 majority of the full members.
Zimbabwe, Srilanka and India Ofcourse said that they were not interested in going all the way to West Indies to play just one game where only the winner was to get the prize of $20 million.
The reserves also got the share of 1 million dollars between themselved.
After all the posturing about the IPL, they have now done this deal leaving the ICC red faced.
It seems to that now 7 million to be shared among the England and West Indies Cricket Boards and 11 million to the winning team with 1 million going to the reserve players and another 1 million to the supporting staff.