England may be odds-on favourites to win the Stanford super-series but the best bet might be that the competition never happens.

The $20 million match has been thrown into turmoil after a row between Digicel, sponsors of the West Indies Cricket Board, and the organisers broke out over rights.

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Digicel believes its five-year deal with the WICB covers the match in Antigua, which will see a Stanford Superstars XI take on Kevin Pietersen’s side on November the first. However the organisers argue that because the ‘Superstar team’ is not ‘officially sanctioned’ by the board then the deal is not applicable for this match.

A date for the high court in London has been set to try to sort things out but with all the publicity around the game it’s a pretty safe bet that all will be sorted out in time.

So with the game likely to go ahead the question remains who to back? Well the slightly stingy odd-on 4/5 available about England is off putting but after the form they’ve showed under KP they surly have the upper hand. They are also used to playing together where the Allstars will be rather thrown into a mix they may be unfamiliar with.

That said this is Twenty20 and anything can happen so the 5/4 for the Stanford team might be worth a flutter.

As for other bets the 6/1 about Freddie Flintoff to be top England batsmen has to be value while backing 7/2 for Stuart Broad to be the best English bowler also seems good.

Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Trix
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