ECB discuss Twenty20 match with Stanford
England players have not joined the IPL
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The England and Wales Cricket Board met with Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire, with a view to a one-off Twenty20 match against a West Indies all-star XI.
A statement from the ECB said that talks had taken place in the full knowledge of the West Indies Cricket Board and had been "very positive and constructive".
Further details of the plans will be submitted during May.
Meanwhile the ECB also stated that England players were not banned from taking part in the IPL.
A statement said the future tours programme takes precedence over domestic competitions but it did not say that England players could not compete in the IPL.
"The England team director will continue to determine which players can be rested or released from their central contracts from time to time on the basis that the future tours programme always takes precedence," the statement read.
"The ECB will act in accordance with this policy but has never stated that centrally contracted players are banned from IPL."
But the statement did say that there were scheduled npower Test matches in 2008 and 2009 which clashed with the scheduled dates of the IPL.
"It should be noted that in 2008 and 2009 the npower Test match series clashes with the scheduled dates of the Indian Premier League but future schedules of the IPL from 2010 onwards are yet to be released," it concluded.