Stanford 20/20
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The Stanford 20/20 Tournament is a cricket tournament which was held over the summer of 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Oval, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. It is a variety of the popular Twenty20 format first introduced in English cricket in 2003.
This format of the game was devised and made possible mainly by R. Allen Stanford, a Texan billionaire with an ethnical background from Antigua. He has spent many millions of US$ in the hope of achieving his dream of bringing West Indian cricket back to life. 19 countries will play in a straight knock-out tournament to try and achieve first place and with it first prize - US$1 million.
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[edit] Teams
- Anguilla
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Montserrat
- Nevis
- St. Kitts
- St. Lucia
- St. Maarten
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines
- Trinidad & Tobago
- USVI
[edit] Qualifying
In the three Qualifying matches United States Virgin Islands beat St. Maarten by 48 runs, Cayman Islands beat Bahamas by 57 runs and St. Lucia beat British Virgin Islands by 7 wickets.
[edit] Round of 16 onwards
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| Guyana | ||||||||||||||
| Montserrat | ||||||||||||||
| Guyana | 168-7 (19.0) |
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| Jamaica | 163-6 | |||||||||||||
| Jamaica | ||||||||||||||
| Bermuda | ||||||||||||||
| Guyana | 160-4 (18.2) |
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| Grenada | 158-8 | |||||||||||||
| Grenada | ||||||||||||||
| Dominica | ||||||||||||||
| Grenada | 70-3 (10.1) |
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| St. Vincent | 122-7 | |||||||||||||
| St. Vincent | ||||||||||||||
| US Virgin Islands | ||||||||||||||
| Guyana | 176-5 (19.5) |
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| Trinidad & Tobago | 175-6 | |||||||||||||
| Nevis | ||||||||||||||
| St. Kitts | ||||||||||||||
| Nevis | 213-3 | |||||||||||||
| Antigua | 170-9 | |||||||||||||
| Antigua | ||||||||||||||
| St. Lucia | ||||||||||||||
| Nevis | 136-9 | |||||||||||||
| Trinidad & Tobago | 210-6 | |||||||||||||
| Trinidad & Tobago | ||||||||||||||
| Cayman Islands | ||||||||||||||
| Trinidad & Tobago | 142-9 | |||||||||||||
| Barbados | 96 (18.2) |
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| Barbados | ||||||||||||||
| Anguilla | ||||||||||||||
[edit] Winner
In an amazing run chase against Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana emerged the stanford 20/20 champion 2006
