1.   If the team had not fielded championship teams the past few years, they never would have this clout in the design.

2.   No other team has fielded a lineup of five certain first-round pro draft picks.

3.   So is the team fielding average.

4.   While other teams field full-time players, the Japanese players are part-time athletes and full-time students, office clerks and secretaries.

5.   Pakistan will name its final squad before the start of the match, but captain Saeed Anwar hinted that the home team may field two spinners.

6.   An Italian soccer body has thrown out the limit on the number of non-European Union players a team can field.

7.   Both teams fielded only a part of their teams expected to play the World championships.

8.   Both teams fielded only about half of their regulars for the upcoming World Championships in Sweden.

9.   Both teams fielded their top pro players.

10.   Both teams fielded newcomers to their lineups and left out regular stars in a match played at the home of the newly-crowned Scottish Cup holders, Kilmarnock.