Stanford All Stars? Or West Indies?
I don't know whether the cricketers of England or West Indies are in the habit of perusing the website of the London high court for its daily list of causes, but they might do so for September 18, when an injunction is due to be brought by Digicel
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
I don't know whether the cricketers of England or West Indies are in the habit of perusing the website of the London high court for its daily list of causes, but they might do so for September 18, when an injunction is due to be brought by Digicel against the West Indies Cricket Board. If it goes unresolved, all bets could be off, at least in the short term, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian
So comes the semantics. Is it really a West Indies team that England will be playing? Indeed is it right to call them England? It seems to me that if, say, the current England XI were hired to play at Wormsley under the Getty banner then that doesn't make them England. Likewise Stanford All Stars. We all know what they are, but this is about legalese. I hope it can be established that England will not play as England but as an England XI, just as we would were it any other non-international match abroad. If KP gets a hundred and helps win a million a man then all well and good. But it shouldn't count in the international records.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo