WICB close to Stanford deal - Sport in brief - Evening Standard
       

WICB close to Stanford deal

A final resolution to the sponsorship row that had threatened the multi-million dollar Stanford Twenty20 match looks to be only hours away.

The West Indies Cricket Board have scheduled a meeting in St Lucia for 10am local time (3pm BST) where their chief executive, Sir Donald Peters, said he expected the governing body's directors would ratify an agreement to allow the winner-takes-all US$20million match to go ahead.

Peters revealed that while negotiations were still ongoing between telecommunications company Digicel and the match organisers Stanford, he expected a deal would be done in time for the meeting.

"I expect that at the meeting we will have an agreement that we (the WICB) will discuss," he said.

"The negotiations are still going on so I am not yet sure what the outcomes is, but we will be able to discuss the matter further after the meeting."

Sport in brief in Pictures

Don't Miss
The Glamour Awards - stars turn on the style

Glamour Awards

Stars turn on the style
Duchess of Cambridge is pretty in pink at her first Buckingham Palace garden party

Garden party

Duchess of Cambridge is pretty in pink
FIRST review of Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus

First review

Is Ridley Scott's Prometheus any good?
Fair-weather goths

Fair-weather goths

The sultry shades of summer darks are coming out of the shadows
London gets ready for the Diamond Jubilee - in pictures

Diamond Jubilee

London gets ready - in pictures
Dog save the Queen: Corgis surge in popularity

Dog save the Queen

Corgis surge in popularity
'He’s a better ex than he was a husband', says Boris Johnson's ex wife

A better ex than husband

We talk to Boris Johnson's ex wife
TV Baftas - in pictures

Best of the Baftas

Stars on the red, white and blue carpet
You big softie: Has Giles Coren put down his poison pen?

You big softie

Has Giles Coren put down his poison pen?
Pop star Paloma Faith, former Labour minister and Tory blogger back gay marriage video

Gay marriage

Pop star, former Labour minister and Tory blogger back gay marriage video