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/ 27 September 2009
Sir Allen Stanford, a sports impresario who bankrolled cricket’s Twenty20 tournaments, is in hospital following a fight with another prison inmate.
The Libyan government had invested -million of its cash reserves with accused swindler Allen Stanford’s firm as of late 2008.
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford will appear in a federal court in Virginia on Friday over allegations of massive fraud involving his Antigua bank.
If Allen Stanford ever wanted to make a low-profile departure from his lavish Houston headquarters, there was a private exit through his bathroom.
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/ 28 February 2009
Regulators on Friday accused billionaire Allen Stanford, his college roommate and three of their companies of carrying out a ”massive Ponzi scheme”.
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/ 20 February 2009
Billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an -billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was served with the formal complaint on Thursday.
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/ 19 February 2009
The investigation into the business empire of cricket tycoon Allen Stanford sowed panic in the Caribbean and Latin America on Wednesday.
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/ 18 February 2009
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with massive fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped on his headquarters.
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/ 25 December 2008
SA had every reason to look back fondly on 2008, a year in which Allen Stanford became a name known to all fans and Australia came back to the pack.
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/ 2 November 2008
The Stanford Superstars scooped the richest prize in cricket after crushing England by 10 wickets in a Twenty20 -million challenge on Saturday.
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/ 1 November 2008
Who wants to be a millionaire? That’s the -million question players on both the Stanford Superstars and England teams are being asked to consider.
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/ 31 October 2008
The Stanford Cricket Ground is quite a venture, a beautifully designed facility, purpose-built by Antigua’s biggest private employer for his staff.
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has offered to put up -million for England to play five Twenty20 games against his West Indies All-Star team. England and Wales Cricket Board chairperson Giles Clarke had said on Thursday the prospect of England taking part in a winner-takes-all -million match in the West Indies was ”very likely”.
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/ 20 December 2007
More than a century ago, a war correspondent called Winston Churchill was dispatched to Cuba to cover the conflict with Spain. ”It may be that future years will see the island as it would be now, had England never lost it — a Cuba free and prosperous under just laws and patriotic administration, throwing open her ports to the commerce of the world, sending her ponies to Hurlingham and her cricketers to Lord’s.”
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/ 25 September 2007
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Cricket has shed its image as a dull, unattractive and lengthy sport after the spectacular success of the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship. The event, which ended on Monday with India beating Pakistan by five runs in a rousing finale, created such a stir that Twenty20 is now being hailed as a revolution.
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/ 24 September 2007
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The winners of Monday’s Twenty20 World Cup final between India and Pakistan will be invited to play in a million match against the Stanford Super Team in the West Indies next year. Allen Stanford announced that the World Cup winners will asked to play the lucrative winner-takes-all match against a West Indies select team.