Nasser Hussain says we should enjoy the Stanfords for what they were meant to be - and let the players do the worrying.

The Stanford Super Series has copped some stick back in England and it's fair to say things haven't run smoothly.

There have been issues with the pitch, the lights, Sir Allen Stanford himself has come in for some flak and the cricket hasn't been as explosive as we'd hoped.

But you know what? People have to realise what this is all about and take it for what it is.

This is a big-money game, that's what the players - and the ECB - signed up for, and they have to treat it that way. All they need to do is turn up, play for the cash and not get too carried away with it all.

This is cricket's equivalent of a skins game of golf, nothing else. It's like the Alfred Dunhill Links when golfers have to play with celebrities, who turn up have a hack and stroll around posing for cameras, while the pros are the one's faced with holing a putt on the 18th at St Andrews for £600,000.

This is not a Test match, it's not a One-Day International and it has never claimed to be. The Stanford Super Series is a fluffier than all that - and that is what people seem to have lost track of.

The feeling out here in Antigua is that the players should just turn up, get on with and do the job in hand, whether or not they like what else is going on. And by and large that has been the case.

Yes, the cricket has been disappointing. In fact it has been fairly turgid so far. There have not been the fours and sixes galore that makes Twenty20 cricket so special, but the pitch has been two-paced, the outfield dreadful and we all know the problems with the lights.

But I don't understand why everyone is getting so upset, taking it so seriously. That's for the players to do, everyone else should just realise that it's a bit of harmless fun.

Sir Allen Stanford being pictured with the England players' wives and girlfriends was just that. He was just having a bit of fun after all. Don't think for a minute he didn't know the TV cameras were on him or there was anything remotely untoward to be had. He is not that naive.

I have just interviewed him and he is just how you would expect a billionaire to be. He is a big, strong personality but you don't make the money he has by sitting in the background shunning the limelight. And let's not forget the guy is doing a lot of good for cricket in the West Indies once this week has come and gone.

And he is doing his best to make sure Saturday's $20million game lives up to the money on offer. He has had the outfield cut as short as possible, the pitch - and pitches out in the Caribbean are always plagued by ridges - has been heavily rolled and he has asked both coaches about the problems with the lights and will do all he can to remedy that.

Hopefully the players can now do their bit.

It was always going to be hard for England, coming out here to completely different conditions and it is fair to say they've not been on top of their game. The health problems haven't helped, but the win over Trinidad & Tobago was encouraging.

Kevin Pietersen played really well and I spoke to coach Andy Flower in the interval and he said England had played as well as they could have, and batted as well as they had for a while. The fact the score was 141 shows how tough the conditions are out here, but with two or three of their main strike bowlers missing, they still did the job.

They will be favourites to pocket the prize money just because they have more superstars than the Superstars do. This isn't Test-match cricket where you need a team performance to succeed, you can win a Twenty20 game with two or three big cameos. If Andrew Flintoff gets it right, Pietersen does what he did earlier in the week or if Matt Prior comes off at the top of the order, that will be enough.

The biggest issue now is who do England select. I can tell you they were swaying, before a ball had been bowled out here, to playing their frontline seam attack of Steve Harmison, Flintoff, Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson, big guys who can hit the pitch hard.

That might still be the case because Ryan Sidebottom's fitness might help make them a decision and I do think it will be easier to leave Graeme Swann out of the equation. Luke Wright is pretty much a passenger if he doesn't get it right at the top of the order, so that pretty much means the side picks itself.

Whoever plays, they have got to take it seriously, be competitive. As for the rest of us, we should all just relax a little bit. I know it's frustrating because you can't follow this as an England side because it is about money and not the team's achievements, but it is what it is - harmless fun.

There are far more serious things going on in the world, so please don't get too wound-up by seeing a billionaire with a player's wife on his lap. It was supposed to be 10 days of fun and we should all remember that. Let the players do the worrying.

As for who will be the richer dressing room come Saturday night, it's Twenty20 so it is really a coin toss as to who wins. But just fancy the superstars of England to beat the Superstars of Stanford.

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