Sir Allen Stanford may or may not stay with cricket, but the events of the last 24 hours and the conflicting statements about his intentions - first he was evaluating his options which suggested he was on his way out of the door, then he announced he was committed to English cricket - merely reinforcing the impression I formed last November after the highly-publicised million-dollar match in the Caribbean.
I returned from Antigua extremely doubtful that the Stanford Super Series would do anything for West Indian cricket and utterly convinced the England and Wales Cricket Board had taken a wrong turn.
This marriage between the Texan billionaire and England was a hasty wedding conceived for the wrong reasons. It was driven by naked money-making ambitions yet clothed in high-sounding talk of doing good for our fellow men and reviving West Indian cricket in particular.
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Paul Ince's sacking once again exposes a major fault line in English football, the belief that a good player can instantly move into management and become a good manager. On the continent, they look at this English phenomena in wonderment.
Earlier this year, walking around Clairefontaine, the French Football Federation academy, I discussed the issue with Gerard Houllier. There was a lot of talk then of Alan Shearer becoming the Newcastle manager and thus emulating the likes of Bryan Robson, Gareth Southgate and Stuart Pearce, who had moved instantly into the top-flight of football management once their playing days were over.
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It is not often that the men in blazers get much credit but those of the England and Wales Cricket Board deserve praise for their handling of the situation following the attacks in Mumbai. Almost all the decisions they have taken have proved to be right.
The contrast with the shambles in 2003 prior to the start of the World Cup in Zimbabwe could not be starker. Then, with security fears again very much to the fore, England were holed up in a Cape Town hotel agonising about whether to play their group match against the hosts in Harare.
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