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Moores unsure over second overseas star for Lancashire

6:19pm Thursday 18th March 2010

PETER Moores says Lancashire have not decided whether to go down the line of hiring a second overseas player for the Twenty20 competition this season.

The Red Rose, like all counties, can now utilise a second import in the short form – but head coach Moores is adamant that Old Trafford chiefs will not make a signing for the sake of it, especially as they are not 100 per cent certain who their first choice overseas man will be.

Ashwell Prince starts the season and is due to be replaced by Kumar Sangakkara after the ICC World T20 in May.

However, a proposed Test series between India and Sangakkara’s Sri Lanka has thrown his arrival at Old Trafford into doubt.

Of the Twenty20 competition, which carries the riches of the Champions League, Moores said: “We haven’t decided on whether to get a second overseas player.

“We have a good T20 side so if we bring someone in it has to be a player of quality higher than what we currently have to improve us.

“But it would be wrong not to look around and to see who is available because T20 is big business now and it is a tournement we want to succeed in.”

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