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Stone the crows; does Twenty20 ever stop to draw breath? hot on the heels of the furore surrounding the Champions League announcement, the ECB have agreed to play the West indies in a one-off , £10 million, winner-takes-all tournament called The Stanford Cup. It will held every Autumn for the next five years. So what's the 411...?

So that's £50m over five years, right?
Correctumundo...

Don't do that, ever. How does it work?
England play against the Stanford All-Stars, made up of players from the existing Caribbean Stanford Cup...

Who's this Allen Stanford fella?
Texas-born millionaire committed to sorting out the structure of sport in The Caribbean...

So KP gets his wish then?
If England win he does...

No appearance fees?
Nope, £500,000 per winning player...

But that's only £5.5 million...
Ooh, get you. Another million is then spread between the victorious team and coaches...

But that's onl..
Yes, I know, give me chance. The other £3.5 million is split between the England and West Indies cricket boards...

Didn't we propose that yesterday?
Yes we did, I'm just cleaning off the crystal ball to check the winner of next year's Ashes...

Click here to see the 2008 final between Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica...