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Sport's Strangest Crimes, Allen Stanford: The Man Who Bought Cricket, 1. Lord's

Sport's Strangest Crimes

Allen Stanford: The Man Who Bought Cricket

1. Lord's

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September 27, 2021

35 minutes

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Lord's 2008. The most sacred ground in cricket had never witnessed anything like it. Across the London skyline a helicopter appeared and slowly descended onto the hallowed turf. From within emerged a tall, brash Texan who was greeted by the great and the good of cricket. With him was a box of money, and not just a few quid....$20 million. The man was Allen Stanford and he had an audacious plan to revolutionise the game of cricket. One match for $20 million - winner takes all, the loser gets nothing. But who exactly was Allen Stanford, why was he willing to splash out $20 million and why was he being entertained by the English cricketing authorities?

Meanwhile thousands of miles away in the USA, unbeknown to those gathered at Lord's, a file with Allen Stanford's name was ed to the FBI.

Greg James sets off on his journey to tell the real story of Allen Stanford - The Man Who Bought Cricket.