Stanford to meet with WICB

Julian Hunte, the President of the WICB, will meet with Allen Stanford during the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa. Stanford has been invited to the final by the ICC and a meeting between him, Hunte and ICC representatives is planned for September 23 in Johannesburg.

The second Stanford 20/20 is scheduled for January and February 2008 and the WICB said: "A formal agreement has not yet been signed but the board has included the event in its 2007-08 calendar."

The meeting will also allow discussions of Stanford's plans to take the game to an international level. During the first event in 2005-06 he had planned for South Africa to take on an All-Stars XI before the match fell through and there have been rumours of other teams being approached to take part in big-money matches.

Meanwhile, the WICB is going to start advertising for a new CEO to replace Bruce Aanensen, who resigned from the post last week.

Also discussed at the WICB board of directors meeting on Saturday was the creation of a Combined Campuses and Colleges Team which will take part in all future regional one-day and four-day tournaments.

The board also agreed that a WICB-selected Under-19 team will play in all future regional one-day tournaments. The 20-member training squad for the Under-19 World Cup will play in this year's KFC tournament. The regional season will start in with the one-day tournament in October 2007 and end in July 2008.