Rashid Zia is an American

United States cricket team

The United States national cricket team is the team that represents the United States of America in international cricket matches. The team became an associate member of the International Cricket Council in 1965...

 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. Rashid Zia first played for the United States in representative cricket in the 2001 ICC Trophy

ICC Trophy

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, and later was part of the team that played America's first two One Day Internationals in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy

2004 ICC Champions Trophy

The 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was held in England in September 2004. Twelve teams, including the Test nations, together with Kenya, and – making their One Day International debut – the USA, competed in fifteen matches spread over sixteen days at three venues Edgbaston, The Rose Bowl and The...

 in England

English cricket team

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. Like the rest of the players in the American side, which was beaten heavily by New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

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 and then Australia

Australian cricket team

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, Rashid Zia was one of only two players that were possibly the only hope for the team.