The Stanford 20/20 was a short-lived

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tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was held first in July and August 2006 in the

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at the

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, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, and then again in the same place in 2008. It was a variety of the popular

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format, which had been first introduced in English cricket in 2003. The tournament was separate to the Stanford Super Series, which was held in late 2008. The tournament was privately devised and funded by wealthy American businessman

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, who held Antiguan

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. It has been alleged that Stanford's creation of the tournament was a method of laundering his income from the fraudulent business schemes for which he is now serving a lengthy penal sentence in the U.S.A. 19 teams took part in the inaugural knock-out tournament and 20 teams took part in the second tournament (although 21 teams were originally scheduled to take part). The 2008 season was part of the official calendar of the

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2006 tournament

Qualifying matches

Bracket

2008 tournament

Initially it was planned to include two additional teams from the region in the 2008 competition,

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and the

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, increasing the number of teams participating to twenty-one (21). However, since the application required by US citizens (such as Stanford himself) and organisations to interact with the island under the

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was rejected,

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(Cuba's destined opponent in the preliminary round) received a bye.Cuba denied participation in Stanford 20/20
''Cricinfo's'
''Beyond the Test World''
retrieved 19 December 2007

Preliminary matches

*Cuba were barred from participating in the tournament; St Maarten received a bye to the next round

Brackets

Notes

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