Imran Pervez Awan is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i born American

United States

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

 bowler, he has played for the United States national cricket team since 2000.

Biography

Born in Sialkot

Sialkot

Sialkot is a city in Pakistan situated in the north-east of the Punjab province at the foothills of snow-covered peaks of Kashmir near the Chenab river. It is the capital of Sialkot District. The city is about north-west of Lahore and only a few kilometers from Indian-controlled Jammu.The...

 in 1979, Imran Awan first played for the USA in 2000, touring England. He did not play again until the 2005 ICC Trophy

2005 ICC Trophy

Ireland beat Bermuda easily as Ed Joyce made 103 for the hosts in Stormont.----Denmark beat Uganda by 28 runs as Thomas Munkholt Hansen took 6 for 30 to carry Denmark to a 28-run win over Uganda in Muckamore. Denmark made 197 with Henrik Saxe Hansen making 71...

 in Ireland

Ireland

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. After playing in warm-up matches against the Northern Cricket Union President's XI and Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

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 he played five matches in the tournament proper. He took 4/46 against Papua New Guinea, his best List A bowling performance.

In 2006, he played in the ICC Americas Championship

ICC Americas Championship

The ICC Americas Championship is a one-day cricket tournament organised by the Americas Cricket Association for non-Test national cricket teams in the Americas...

 in King City, Ontario

King City, Ontario

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, and most recently represented his country in Division Five

2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five

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 of the World Cricket League

World Cricket League

The ICC World Cricket League is a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status, administered by the International Cricket Council. All associate and affiliate members of the ICC are eligible to compete in the league system, which features a promotion...

 in Jersey

Jersey

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in 2008.