[Zephaniah]

Tigers play first official practice match today

06/09/2004

The Bangladesh cricket team will play their first official practice match before the ICC Champions Trophy against the United States at Embercourt today.
Bangladesh, who have already played four practice matches – two each against Ireland and Scotland – will play another official practice match against Yorkshire Eleven at the end of this week.
The United States comprising players from West Indies, Pakistan and other nations will not be a pushover side.
Ten of their players out of 14 played first class cricket in Pakistan and West
Indies.
Only West Indies-born Richard Staple and Steve Massiah and Pakistani Rashid Zia and Imran Awan did not play any first class cricket.
Leon Romero is the only player in the squad who was born in the USA but played first class cricket in the West Indies.
The former West Indian Test cricketer Clayton Lambert is also in the squad at the age of 42 years.
Lambert had a Test debut against England in 1991 at the Oval and represented West Indies in five Tests and 11 one-dayers till 1998.

USA squad: Richard Staple, Nasir Javed, Charles Reid, Zamin Amin, Howard Johnson, Aijaz Ali, Mark Johnson, Leon Romero, Naseer Islam, Rohan Alexander, Rashid Zia, Steve Massiah, Clayton Lambert and Imran Awan.

Source : Newage

Edited on, September 5, 2004, 8:56 PM GMT, by Zephaniah.
Reason: source added