2/27/2009 11:29:00 AM Stanford's money has already been spent Today’s match against Grenada is the last chance for players to impress selectors
Lionel Cann Sun columnist
I'm really looking forward to coming home and being with my family next week. It's been a long tour, but we still have one piece of unfinished business to take care of today.
We want to end the tour on a high note. All the players have an incentive to do well against Grenada.
First of all, it's a competitive match and you always want them to go into the record books as a win.
Secondly, for some of the guys, it's their last chance to impress the selectors for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. You always want your last impression to be a good one and while some of the guys have already made the selectors' job easier by performing well, for a few of the guys it's a chance to say they belong on the national team. Fiqre Crockwell is doing his best to make the selectors' job harder.
Thirdly, it's our last match before we head off to South Africa. We want it to be a positive one. I've said it before, but winning breeds confidence and we have a confident squad as the guys are growing accustomed to winning and doing it in a variety of ways. We are a lot tougher mentally now, than when this tour started.
National stadium
On Wednesday we play the national team and it was a really great modern stadium that we played in - one of the best I've played in. It was a first class facility from the changing rooms to the gym. The crowds were a little disappointing. There haven't been very many big crowds throughout the tour, but that's to be expected when matches are played during the week. We might see 50 or 100 people - a little more at lunch time when people come in for a quick peek before heading back to work. It's pretty much what you'd expect to see when we play our matches at home during the week.
Stanford money
There's been a lot of talk that the cricket board should give back the money from Allen Stanford, but first of all he's innocent until proven guilty.
Plus the money that he's given to the BCB has already been spent.
It's gone to different programmes and been used to help upgrade facilities to help out with rollers and making the changing rooms better. It's hard to give back $500,000 after it's been spent and it's been used wisely. If you don't have the money to give back, you can't give it back.
