Leon Constantine Romero is an 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, right-arm medium pace

Fast bowling

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 bowler and occasional wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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, he played two One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the United States national cricket team 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...

, having previously played first-class

First-class cricket

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 and List A cricket for Trinidad & Tobago.

Trinidad & Tobago career

Born in New York

New York

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 in 1974, Leon Romero first played cricket in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

. He played for the Trinidad & Tobago Under-19 team in 1994, and played several matches for North and East Trinidad against South and Central Trinidad between 1996 and 2000.

He made his first-class debut in January 1999, playing in the Busta Cup

Carib Beer Cup

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 against Guyana

Guyana national cricket team

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. He played further matches against the Windward Islands

Windward Islands cricket team

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, Jamaica

Jamaica national cricket team

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 and Barbados

Barbados national cricket team

The Barbadian cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Barbados.It does not take part in any international competitions , but rather in inter-regional competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, and the best players may be...

 that season, and played a match against India A later in the year.

He played twice in the 2000 Busta Cup, against the Leeward Islands

Leeward Islands cricket team

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 and the Windward Islands and made his List A debut later in the year, playing in the Red Stripe Bowl

KFC Cup

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 against Barbados, Jamaica and Canada. He played against Guyana and West Indies B in the 2001 Busta Cup, before his career in Trinidad finished in 2002 with a match for North Trinidad against South Trinidad.

International career

Romero first played for the USA in 2004. His first match for them, and his final first-class match, was an ICC Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

The ICC Intercontinental Cup is a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council as part of its cricket development programme...

 match against Canada in Fort Lauderdale. He made his ODI debut later in the year, playing against New Zealand and Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy

ICC Champions Trophy

The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002...

 in England

England

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. He took the wicket of Hamish Marshall

Hamish Marshall

Hamish John Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of James Marshall. Hamish and James became the second pair of twins to play Test cricket, and are the first identical pair.Marshall, a middle-order batsman, made his Test debut against South Africa in...

 in the New Zealand match, his only wicket in first-class or List A cricket.

He last played for the USA in 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 warm-up matches against the Northern Cricket Union President's XI and Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

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, he played three matches in the tournament proper against Denmark, Bermuda and Oman.