The $20 million match has been thrown into turmoil after a row between Digicel, sponsors of the West Indies Cricket Board, and the organisers broke out over rights.

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Digicel believes its five-year deal with the WICB covers the match in Antigua, which will see a Stanford Superstars XI take on Kevin Pietersen’s side on November the first. However the organisers argue that because the ‘Superstar team’ is not ‘officially sanctioned’ by the board then the deal is not applicable for this match.

A date for the high court in London has been set to try to sort things out but with all the publicity around the game it’s a pretty safe bet that all will be sorted out in time.

So with the game likely to go ahead the question remains who to back? Well the slightly stingy odd-on 4/5 available about England is off putting but after the form they’ve showed under KP they surly have the upper hand. They are also used to playing together where the Allstars will be rather thrown into a mix they may be unfamiliar with.

That said this is Twenty20 and anything can happen so the 5/4 for the Stanford team might be worth a flutter.

As for other bets the 6/1 about Freddie Flintoff to be top England batsmen has to be value while backing 7/2 for Stuart Broad to be the best English bowler also seems good.

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Surrey however have been relegated to Division 2 after this latest defeat and now have gone all season without a win and some much needed rethinking to be done before next season I think.
In the battle for promotion from Div 2 it is a two horse race with both Worcestershire and Warwickshire fighting it out for the title but with Warwickshire needing only three points in their last game they look likely Champions.

In the one day format Sussex were crowned Div 1 Champions after a dramatic last ball win over Nottinghamshire who incidentally could of also won the title but it was a fitting way for Skipper Chris Adams to retire with a trophy in his last game of competitive Cricket.

Internationally the big news is regarding Bangladesh’s decision to ban 13 players for playing in the ICL for a maximum of ten years each which has left New Zealand’s tour next month looking like they are playing a brand new team from top to bottom.

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The pitches which always favour spin could well give India an edge on which is sure to be a tight series and with Betfairs odds of India 8/7 and Australia 11/8 they obviously agree on this and to be honest there is not much value there so taking a look at the final series score betting might land you some early Christmas money.

With Australia having some of the best batsmen alive and after training with spin legend Warne for a few years before his retirement I feel they are more than ready to take the fight to Kumble and Singh and the price of 5/1 with betfair on them winning 2-0 looks pretty good value or as a lot of games in India seem to rack up hundreds of runs and a lot of games ending in draws a 1-0 Aussie victory at 9/1 also looks very appetising.

Indian fans will look to put one over the World’s greatest current best cricket team and if there batsmen Tendulkar and Sehwag in particular can hit form then this can be one hell of a series and betfair giving 7/1 on a 2-1 home win is probably the best bet if you feel India have a chance as I know Australia will win a test match at least.

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Kevin Pieterson’s captaincy really does look to have given the English batsmen a new lease of life with the top order and Ian Bell in particular looking really aggressive all of a sudden compared to a nervous laid back attitude under previous Captain Michael Vaughan. Bell scored a fantastic 73 runs off 77 balls, putting on 101 runs in quick fashion with Matthew Prior before Flintoff came in with work to do following a South Africa fight back during the middle of England’s innings to help the home side to finish on 296-7 at the end of their over’s.

South Africa in reply never really got going and apart from Amla’s 46 their batsmen failed to get a hold of England’s bowlers and eventually succumbed to a paltry 170 all out to give England a surprising series win against the number 1 one day side in the world and to take Kevin Pieterson’s reign as captain to 4 wins on the trot which is a pretty impressive start.

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First to look at is the Friends Provident Trophy final. Essex and Kent square off at Lords this Saturday with the latter heavy favourites to win the game. Kent over the last few years have become one-day specialists. Last season the Spitfires showed some outstanding cricket to win the Twenty20 cup. Captain Rob Key was probably their man of the tournament and he’s continued that form this season with many pundits asking for his recall into the England one-day team. Kent were losing finalists in this season’s Twenty20 final, beating Essex in the semis, and have already beaten their opponents in this year’s Friends Provident Trophy by 106 runs.

Interestingly both these sides are in division two of the Pro40 league, England’s one day league, with Kent trailing Essex by five points but having played three games less. The Spitfires currently have a 100% record in that competition.

So all signs point to a Kent win but we’ve seen all two often in the past that a bet on the favourites in this competition comes with a heath warning.

As far as England’s ODI series win the Proteas is concerned South Africa go into it as favourites. Despite an England win in the final test you still couldn’t really back them to get the better of Graeme Smith’s side.

Durham may be fourites to win the County Championship this season but there has been some money towards last season’s champions Sussex.

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The 14/1 shots are currently sitting fifth in the division one table 20 points off leaders Nottinghamshire so you’d think they have a mountain to climb. However thanks to the rather complicated points system the County Championship employs a twenty-point gap can be gone in one match. The South coast side are on a three match unbeaten run in the league and were in excellent form when drawing with Lancashire at Old Trafford, only denied a victory by the weather. They’ve also been going great guns in the one-day pro40 league, which will only add to the side’s confidence.

The Sharks have one more thing in their advantage too – the climate. Sussex play three of their last four games in the south of the country and it is possible that they will complete more fixtures than their rivals due to dryer weather. This should give them more points than their northern rivals, who are more likely to face weather delays.

Also being well backed at the moment is Somerset who currently occupy third in the Championship. Currently around 4/1 to take the division one crown the Sabres recent fixtures have been disrupted by the weather but the west country side have been able to pick up decent points in the process keeping them within touching distance. If they can continue to do that then they are in with a shout.

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 It is common sense and indeed common knowledge that Australia are by far and away the best cricketing nation in one day and test cricket. This fact is well reflected in the current ICC official rankings with the Aussies clear in both tables. What is interesting to see from the statistics is how little, compared to the other top sides, that Australia play test cricket. Ricky Ponting’s men have played eight matches less than their nearest rivals, South Africa, but I guess when you win pretty much every match you play there is no need for a lot of fixtures.

Well if Australia is the bride then South Africa is definitely cricket’s bridesmaids at the moment. Although a decent way behind in the test table the Proteas are only just lagging in the one-day ladder having player four less games than their Southern Hemisphere rivals.

The rankings also confirm England fans’ suspicions that their beloved side has become very ordinary over the last few years. When the Michael Vaughan lead side of 2005 won the Ashes the team were propelled into the second spot in the longest form of the game only for things to start to unravel the following winter when Australia extracted revenge with a series whitewash. England have never really recovered and sit mid table in both guides.

With not long to go until the end of the current English Cricket season things could not be any tighter in the County Championship table (the 4 day version of the game) with league leaders Nottinghamshire just one point ahead of Durham who have a game in hand and Somerset back in third also with a game in hand over Notts. At the bottom of the table meanwhile Surrey look doomed to relegation after no wins in 11 games and are the only team still not to get to 100 points.

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Players that have been performing this year include old England International Mark Ramprakash who despite his team Surrey having a horrible year in terms of winning no games he has somehow managed to score very consistently with an average of 62 runs including a marvellous knock of 200 not out in the process.

Another batsmen in form and is being looked at by the English selectors (again) for their upcoming tour to India is Nottinghamshire Wicket keeper and captain Chris Read who once again has batted very well this season with an average of over 41 and has also taken quite a few unbelievable catches in helping Nottinghamshire to the top of the table in both the 4 day and one day versions of the game.

Stave Harmison is the English bowler who has caught the eye all season and has deservedly regained his place in the Test side and with some very testing test series to come against the top sides in the world he will need to stay on top of his game because he is England’s premier bowler when on form.