TWO FORMER Jamaica and West Indies captains, Courtney Walsh and Jimmy Adams, will lead the two teams at the annual Milo/Melbourne cricket festival scheduled for Melbourne Oval on Sunday.
The match, a 35-over-aside contest, is scheduled to start at 9.30 and apart from Walsh the world record holder for the most wickets in Test cricket, and Adams once the No. 1 ranked batsman in the world, also in action will be Richie Richardson another former West Indies captain, Curtly Ambrose one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, and Shazam Babwah the young Trinidad and Tobago batsman who smashed a century off 99 deliveries against the Windward Islands in the recently concluded Red Stripe Bowl limited-overs tournament.
Other players include Test players Gareth Breese and David Bernard Jnr., Jamaica representatives Brenton Parchment, Keith Hibbert, Matthew Sinclair, Maurice Kepple and Andrew Richardson as well as batsmen Shawn Findlay, Danza Hyatt, Donovan Pagon and Tamar Lambert, pacers Evon McInnis and Krishmar Santokie and spinners Kevin Kelly and Andre Dwyer.
The teams: Walsh's XI (from): Walsh, Richie Richardson, Andrew Richardson, Babwah, Kepple, Sinclair, Ray Stewart, Aubrey Wollaston, Pagon, Lambert, Llewelyn Meggs, Ramon Hutchinson, Leon Bent and Nikita Miller.
Adams' XI (from): Adams, Ambrose, Breese, Bernard, Parchment, Findlay, Hyatt, Hibbert, McInnis, Santokie, Kelly, Dwyer and Yanick Elliott.
The festival match will be followed by a 15-over-a-side contest between an Entertainers XI and a Celebrities XI featuring some of the big names in local music, former cricketers such as Jamaica and West Indies representative Maurice Foster and Jamaica representative Wayne Lewis, and top personalities in the business and professional world.
The match will feature coloured clothes, white balls and black sightscreens.
The Entertainers XI will be selected from Captain Barkey, Beenie Man, Mad Cobra, Spragga Benz, Wayne Marshall, Power Man, Elephant Man, Snagga Pus, Wickerman, Lexus, Dugsie Ranks, Kiprich, Magabanton, Nitty Kuchie, L. A. Lewis, Escobar, Wee Pow and Billy Slaughter.
The Celebrities XI will come from Walsh, Foster, Lewis, Clive 'Busy' Campbell, Peter Moses, Andrew Price, Carl Stephenson, Michael Bernard, Dr. Akshai Mansingh. Rohan Daley, Tym Glaser, Horace Helps, Audley Boyd, Francois St. Juste and Oral Tracey.
