Not to be easily upstaged, Allen Stanford, the billionaire financier of the million dollar Stanford 20/20 tournament in the Caribbean, held a meeting with England's Cricket Board Chairman Giles Clarke on Tuesday to propose joint ventures which could see Stanford having a role in any future English Premier League plus a match next year, which could be worth as much as $20million, against an All-stars West Indies XI.

"We did see Sir Allen - a date has not been fixed for when anything will be played, or what format it will take this year or going forward into the future," Clarke told BBC Radio Four's Today programme. "I think that match is very likely to take place. Sir Allen is doing a huge amount for cricket in the West Indies and we are keen to help things develop there."

England's  centrally contracted  cricket players are some of the only ones who are restricted from participating in the initial IPL matches as there is no window in the current international schedule for them to do so. As a result the ECB is eager to appease players who are keen to cash in on lucrative Twenty20 tournaments.

Visit http://content-wi.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/site/ipl/fixtures.html for the IPL tournament schedule.

Below is the list of players for the respective teams in the IPL published in February 2008:

Bangalore
Rahul Dravid (capt), Jacques Kallis (SA): $ 900,000, Anil Kumble (Ind): $500,000, Cameron White (Aus): $500,000, Zaheer Khan (Ind): $450,000, Mark Boucher (SA): $450,000, Nathan Bracken (Aus): $325,000, Dale Steyn (SA): $325,000, Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI $200,000, Wasim Jaffer (Ind): $150,000.

Chennai
MS Dhoni (US$1.5 million), Albie Morkel (US$675,000), Jacob Oram (US$675,000), Suresh Raina (US$650,000), Muttiah Muralitharan (US$600,000), Matthew Hayden (US$375,000), Stephen Fleming (US$350,000), Michael Hussey (US$350,000), Parthiv Patel (US$325,000), Joginder Sharma (US$225,000), Makhaya Ntini (US$200,000).


Mumbai
Sachin Tendulkar (icon), Sanath Jayasuriya (US$975,000), Harbhajan Singh (US$850,000), Robin Uthappa (US$800,000), Shaun Pollock (US$550,000), Lasith Malinga (US$350,000), Loots Bosman (US$175,000), Dilhara Fernando (US$150,000).


Hyderabad
Andrew Symonds (US$1.35 million), RP Singh (US$875,000), Adam Gilchrist (US$700,000), Rohit Sharma (US$750,000), Shahid Afridi (US$675,000), Herschelle Gibbs (US$575,000), VVS Laxman (US$375,000), Chaminda Vaas (US$200,000), Scott Styris (US$175,000), Nuwan Zoysa (US$110,000), Chamara Silva (US$100,000).


Jaipur
Mohammad Kaif (US$675,000), Yusuf Pathan (US$475,000), Graeme Smith (US$475,000), Shane Warne (US$450,000), Munaf Patel (US$275,000), Younis Khan (US$225,000), Kamran Akmal (US$150,000), Justin Langer (US$200,000).


Mohali
Yuvraj Singh (icon), Irfan Pathan (US$925,000), Brett Lee (US$900,000), Kumar Sangakkara (US$700,000), Sreesanth (US$625,000), Mahela Jayawardene (US$475,000), Piyush Chawla (US$400,000), Ramnaresh Sarwan (US$225,000), Simon Katich (US$200,000), Ramesh Powar (US$170,000).


Kolkata
Sourav Ganguly (icon), Ishant Sharma (US$950,000), Chris Gayle (US$800,000), Brendon McCullum (US$700,000), David Hussey (US$675,000), Shoaib Akhtar (US$425,000), Murali Kartik (US$425,000), Ricky Ponting (US$400,000), Ajit Agarkar (US$330,000), Umar Gul (US$150,000), Tatenda Taibu (US$125,000).

Delhi
Virender Sehwag (icon), Gautam Gambhir (US$725,000), Manoj Tiwary (US$675,000), Mohammad Asif (US$650,000), Daniel Vettori (US$625,000), Dinesh Karthik (US$525,000), Shoaib Malik (US$500,000), Glenn McGrath (US$350,000), AB de Villiers (US$300,000), Tillakaratne Dilshan (US$250,000), Farveez Maharoof (US$225,000).