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Allen Stanford might be pending trial on charges of deception but West Indies Captain Darren Sammy believes the Texan businessman may still have left a positive legacy.
Sammy is leading an inexpert Windies side in the first of two Twenty20 matches against England tomorrow, partly as a makeweight in a broadcasting contract that initially included the Stanford Super Series.
That was initially slated to be an annual event culminate in a one-off match between England and a West Indian XI, with each winning player collecting a cheque for US Dollars 1million .
That opposition only ran for one year, in 2008, before Stanford's business empire, which was based in Antigua, began to crumble.
In the superseding years Stanford has been charged with fraud in the United States, which he without before being affirmed unfit to stand trial.
Away from legal issues, Sammy believe Stanford's asset in West Indian cricket - and specifically in the shortest format of the game - remains in proof in the youngsters on duty at the Kia Oval this week.
"With all due admiration to what Stanford did in the Caribbean, I don't think it could be replace," said Sammy.
"The attention that was generating during the Stanford T20 was very good for us. Now the board has the Caribbean T20 which is a very good event, in which we've seen guys like Johnson Charles, Nkruma Bonner and Christopher Barnwell, who were all exposed because of Caribbean T20.
"I don't know what is going on now with Stanford but what transpire as a result of his tournament, I think it's exposed some good players for us."
For a variety of reasons, counting personal dispute and contribution in the Champions League, the West Indies are with no first-choice players such as Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Darren and Dwayne Bravo, Adrian Barath, Lendl Simmons, Ravi Rampaul and Sulieman Benn.
Sammy, though, is presentation their absence as a chance to blood new faces.
"We are missing guys, who is unlucky, but we have a young side and these guys look very certain and eager to step out at the Oval," he said.
"We have the World Twenty20 coming up and, counting these two games, we only have four before that tournament.
"Optimistically we can come up with the right merge for next year's world cup.
"Like England we now have a young team and players eager to state themselves with bat and ball, so it's gonna be attractive."
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