Chaminda Vaas signs short-term contract with Hampshire
Sri Lankan left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas has agreed to join Hampshire Cricket on a short-term contract to the end of the 2003 season.
Richard Isaacs
30-Jul-2003
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Vaas, who has not played county cricket before, arrives in England over the weekend and is expected to make his debut in the National League Division Two match at the Rose Bowl on Monday August 4 against the Scottish Saltires.
First-team manager Paul Terry was delighted that the man who has played 68 Tests and 227 one-day internationals for his country has agreed to join Hampshire.
He said, before the start of the floodlit National League match with Northamptonshire Steelbacks on Wednesday evening, "I am delighted that Chaminda had agreed to join and received clearance from the Sri Lankan Cricket Board to do so.
"It is especially pleasing that we have a player of such quality coming to join us."
It is left-arm bowler for left-arm bowler, as Vaas replaces Pakistani Wasim Akram, who left the county two weeks ago.