Australian Test captain Steve Waugh, short on match practice after being left out of the world champions' one-day side, said on Tuesday he was considering playing county cricket in England.
Waugh said missing out on two Australian one-day tours had left him short of match practice before a scheduled three-Test series against Pakistan in October.
He and twin brother, Mark were dropped from Australia's limited overs team at the end of last season.
Their hopes of regaining their places for the World Cup next year nose-dived when they were overlooked for Australia's triangular series against Pakistan in Kenya later this month and an "A" tour of South Africa in September.
Steve Waugh said he had spoken to a couple of English counties recently about playing before the Pakistan Test tour.
"There's an opportunity there to go and play county cricket, so that would be a possibility because there's nothing back here and it's not a good preparation going into a three-Test series against Pakistan not playing a game of cricket," Waugh said.
Sydney's 80,000-seater Olympic stadium could become a regular venue for one-day international cricket, it was revealed on Tuesday.
The first game of cricket at the Telstra Stadium will be on 16 February 2003 when New South Wales play South Australia.
NSW, the defending champions in Australia's ING Cup one-day tournament, will hope for a crowd of 20,000.
The match will be starved of the side's best players, however, since it will be staged during the World Cup in South Africa.
A drop-in pitch will be inserted in January with the ground measuring 170 metres long and 128 metres wide, dimensions which would make it similar to the Adelaide Oval.
NSW chief executive Dave Gilbert said it was "inevitable" the ground would eventually be used for international one-day games.
For now, however, the Australian Cricket Board is contractually bound to play its Sydney fixtures at the Sydney Cricket Ground until the 2004-05 season.
"International cricket will come here sooner rather than later because how can you say no to 80,000 crowds and the income that produces for the game," Gilbert said.
Third one-day international, Toronto.
Canada 207-5 (49.2 overs) beat West Indies A 204-7 (50 overs) by five wickets.
Canada win series 2-1
Canada showed they could well cause an upset at the World Cup when they clinched the deciding match in the series in nail-biting fashion.
The Caribbean men were fresh from a largely-successful tour of England and the side beaten in the decider at Maple Leaf CC had six international stars in it.
Canada strengthened their bowling by bringing in Sanjay Thuraisingam, one of their more effective bowlers in the ICC Trophy.
Thuraisingam had a good start, dismissing Daren Ganga for just 3. It completed a poor series for the tourists' captain.
West Indies A were in danger of collapse at 39 for 3, but sensible batting from Dwayne Bravo (45) and Gareth Breese (68) took them out of danger and eventually to a competitive total.