Peter Moores may consider extra Twenty20 practice games for England's leading players to help their preparation for the lucrative million dollar showdown in Antigua later this year.

The England coach has the pressure of choosing a 15-man squad for the November 1 match against a West Indies all-stars line-up alongside the other selectors and captain Paul Collingwood for the multi-million dollar prize fund provided by Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford.

It is a massive responsibility with US Dollars one million (£500,000) on offer for those who play while another US Dollars one million will be shared among those players who fail to make the starting line-up and US Dollars one million among the coaching staff providing England win the Twenty20 match.

The vast rewards, which were revealed at a glitzy press conference at Lord's yesterday with the losers leaving empty-handed, will ensure a frantic battle to earn selection for the trip and the possibility of playing in the richest ever team prize for one match.

But between now and then, England have only two Twenty20 internationals - on Friday against New Zealand at Old Trafford and against South Africa in Chester-le-Street on August 20 - and Moores has admitted they may look at organising extra practice matches to improve their chances of cashing in on the Stanford bonanza.

Moores said: "It's a challenge for us. We haven't played too much Twenty20 international cricket and that's why some of the lads played yesterday to get another game in.

"We'll have to see what happens as we go along. The skills are transferable from one-day internationals to Twenty20, although it does haveslightly different tactics so we're going to have to look at it."

Most of England's one-day squad featured in last night's opening round of matches in the Twenty20 Cup and competition is expected to become increasingly intense with the prospect of a Champions League pay-day and a Stanford jackpot.

Moores believes they should stick to the same selection policy they have for every international squad and remove compassion from the equation when they sit down later this summer to weigh up their options.

"The fact that it's worth more money doesn't matter, you still use the same judgement to pick the side," Moores added.

"When you're selecting any team, you pick the best team you think can win the game for England at any given time.

"The challenge of picking the best Twenty20 squad is out there for us. For the Twenty20 World Cup we picked specialists and we took some information from that and we've got that to draw on when we pick the next Twenty20 teams.

"We've got limited opportunities before the Twenty20 World Cup next year in England so the best players will be picked to play that game.

"There will be no messing around, it will be the best team to win the game. You can never be sentimental when you're picking a team. It has to be the best team you can play whether it's for the Test match or a one-day international."

The remaining US Dollars 7million will be shared by the ECB and the West Indies Cricket Board with the losers receiving nothing, although an agreement is in place for an identical match for the next five years so they have ample opportunities to get on the gravy train.

Negotiations are ongoing between Sir Allen and the England and Wales Cricket Board for a Twenty20 quadrangular tournament to be staged at Lord's including, a Stanford all-stars team and two other internationals sides.

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