Cricket is not a very big sport in prison-Allen Stanford

Allen Stanford has claimed that it "breaks his heart" to hear of the embarrassment that his notorious partnership with the ECB caused to English cricket.

Speaking to the BBC in his first interview since 2009, when he was indicted for the second-largest investment fraud in US history and ultimately sentenced to 110 years in prison, Stanford continued to protest his innocence of the charges, and vowed that he would walk out of the doors of the maximum-security Coleman II prison in Florida "a free man".

However, his name will forever be synonyous with his brief but ill-fated involvement with English cricket in 2008, which began he landed his helicopter on the Nursery Ground at Lord's and challenged the England team to a $20 million winner-takes-all contest on his private ground in Antigua.

England duly lost the first of what was meant to be a series of five such matches against their West Indian opponents, the Stanford Superstars, but soon afterwards the ECB severed all ties as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Stanford with a $8bn fraud.


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