Tensions have emerged in the England dressing room over how best to divide the potential winnings from November’s Twenty20 game in Antigua against the Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford’s All-Star XI. Although each player taking part in the match - the first of five annual money-spinners between now and 2012 - is set to earn an appearance fee in the region of $100,000, the England team are still debating who should get what should they win the match, as well as how much should be set aside for the remaining five squad members and the backroom staff. The England and Wales Cricket Board is due to announce the precise details of the agreement with Stanford either this week or early next but each player on the winning side is expected to pocket $1m, with a quarter of the $20m kitty going to West Indian cricket. When Vaughan was asked before this Test if he was still available for Twenty20 cricket his reply was a smiling but resolute “absolutely”, even though he has played only two matches in the five years since the format began and the more recent of them was January 2007. That would be more than the competition’s costliest player, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, fetched at auction in February, but as yet none of Pietersen’s centrally contracted colleagues has an offer on the table; a few days in the Caribbean sun may be their only hope of keeping financial pace with the world’s best. Negotiations in the coming weeks are bound to throw up tricky questions, such as whether the six players with a central contract on the outside of the Twenty20 squad - Vaughan, Alastair Cook, Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar and Andrew Strauss - should benefit from what could be English cricket’s biggest payday. Read More