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Houston billionaire Sir Allen Stanford tells the Observer 's Andy Bull how, from his base in Antigua, he hopes to revive Caribbean cricket and sell the game to middle America.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Houston billionaire Sir Allen Stanford tells the Observer's Andy Bull how, from his base in Antigua, he hopes to revive Caribbean cricket and sell the game to middle America.
Stanford lives in St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, having moved to the Caribbean in the 1980s because of the tax breaks and the warm weather. He has been in the area long enough to know that 'when cricket, which is the glue that binds us all together, comes up, we go up with it, and when it sinks down we all sink with it. My initial thought was just to do anything to give West Indies a shot in the arm. But this thing was a lot more successful than any of us thought.'
Also read a story in the Trinidad Express on 83-year-old Ivan Johnson.
Johnson is passionate about cricket. He has been playing longer than he has been married. He has been in the game for the past 75 years, beginning at primary school, he was married in 1962.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo