Clifford Fanis (born 4 July 1979) is a former

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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er. Fanis'

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and

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styles are unknown. In February 2008, the

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were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official

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status. Fanis made a single appearance for the United States Virgin Islands in their first-round match against Antigua and Barbuda, with their opponents winning the match by 24 runs. He made 10 runs in the match, before being

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by the combination of Juari Edwards and Curtis Roberts.

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