West Indies Cricket Fans

The ECB is facing legal action to return around £2.2 million (US$3 million) received from the disgraced financier Allen Stanford, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

Receivers acting for creditors of the collapsed Stanford empire are pursuing a number of sporting bodies which had dealings with Stanford.

"There has been a running fear in the ECB that the receiver could come after them, and this could be the knock on the door they have been dreading for two years," a source familiar with the Stanford deal told the newspaper.