England say ‘No’ to the $20m winner-takes-all showdown

England's players have rejected the chance to play in a $20million winner-takes-all Twenty20 showdown against Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford's All-Star West Indies XI due to start in 2010.

The players are keen to take part in the annual big-money match at Stanford's private ground in Antigua, and an annual quadrangular tournament in England, featuring the hosts, the All-Star XI and two other international sides, initially from Pakistan, Sri Lanka or New Zealand. But the prospect of winning — or losing — such an enormous sum of money as £10m, perhaps on the misfortune of a dropped catch or the outcome of the last ball of the game, has proved too much.

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