WICB close to Stanford deal

5:52pm Thursday 9th October 2008

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."