Gilchrist to join Warne in Lord’s match

Adam Gilchrist will be behind the stumps to fellow Australia great Shane Warne one more time at the Lord’s bicentenary match.

Gilchrist will be a member of the Rest of the World team captained by Warne that will play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the owners of Lord’s, in a one-day match on July 5 celebrating the London ground’s 200th anniversary.

“I’m privileged to have been asked to play in this match on such an exciting occasion,” Gilchrist said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Lord’s is a wonderful place to play cricket and I’m really looking forward to helping celebrate its bicentenary in this match.

“There are going to be a lot of familiar faces around and it’ll be a lot of fun to play alongside a couple of old teammates too.”

Meanwhile, former Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait and New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori have also been added to the line-up of leading players taking part.

India hero Sachin Tendulkar will captain a MCC side that also includes his long-time international colleague and Rahul Dravid.

Their fellow India batsman Yuvraj Singh is also set to play in the fixture at the ‘home of cricket’ as is West Indies’ mainstay Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

The 42-year-old Gilchrist, who played two Tests and six One Day Internationals at Lord’s, averaged over 40 at the ground during a career in which he took over 900 dismissals in 396 international matches.

MCC, founded in 1787, moved to its present site in the northwest London suburb of St John’s Wood in 1814, with the ground owned by entrepreneur Thomas Lord – hence its name.

Although it is more than 40 years since MCC ceased to run English cricket, it retains worldwide responsibility for the game’s ‘Laws’, as cricket’s rules are known.

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