20/20 for 20

If you are a cricket enthusiasts then you must have heard about it, 20/20 for 20, the Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford has offered 20 Million US Dollars for a one off game between England and WI Super Stars (Stanford Super Stars). This was the highest money on stake for single game in history so far. England were the obvious favourite, the talks for Pink Ferrari, Porsche, villas, secure future and of course a bit of charity work were in air for England, but as it is said "Cricket is cruel funny game.." and so it is, the underdog belted the favourites and they have done that comprehensively. England were restricted to meagre 99 all out in 19.5 overs and the Super Stars achieved the target easily with plenty of time to spare and so the dreams of England players winning the 1 Million US Dollars for 3 hours efforts were dashed but on the other hand many were Millionaire in 3 hours.

Right after the match England captain Pietersen blamed "some nonsense" for the bad performance of the English team. "There's been a lot of nonsense this week, and we haven't concentrated on the cricket. We've got to focus on that, and we're going to have to buy into this sort of tournament a lot more next time"  (Probably the heat of moment, he could not control his emotions.)

P.S:

1. During the match one of the commentator commented "Rather than Pink Ferrari they should resort to Pink Toy Bicycle..."

2. 1st Nov is also the Independence Day for Antigua.

3. Super Stars required 100 Runs to win 20 Million and that make it 200,000 $ for each run.