From left, Walsh, Ambrose and Walters
Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer
TWENTY/20 Cricket makes its debut today at the annual Milo/Melbourne Cricket Festival, which is set to bowl off at 9:30 a.m.
Twenty/20 cricket has become the most exciting version of the game around the world and one expects no less today.
The Festival will see two 20-overs-a-side matches with the Melbourne Super Cup team taking on the Jamaica Under-19 team; and the Melbourne Masters going up against an Invitational Masters XI.
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The Invitational Masters team will include former West Indies bowling great Joel Garner, who took 259 Test wickets; while other greats such as Curtly Ambrose, 405 Test wickets, and Courtney Walsh, 519 Test wickets, will represent the Melbourne Masters.
The Invitational Masters XI will also include former Jamaica and West Indies batsman Maurice Foster and former Jamaica batsmen Delroy Morgan and Cleveland Davidson as well as Fritz Harris, Patrick Simmonds, Maurice Chung, Calbert Shaw, Douglas Forbes, Roderick Gordon and Eddie Bailey.
Apart from Ambrose and Walsh, the Melbourne Masters will include former Jamaica reps Mark Neita and Derron Dixon, Orrette Fisher, Charles Simpson and Ralston Nunes.
The Young Jamaica team will be led by Jamie Trenchfield and includes Xavier Marshall, Damian Ebanks, Wayne Morgan, Albert Gopie, Alton Beckford, Dennis Bulli, Yannick Elliott, Craigian Malcolm and Denva Passley.
Melbourne's Super Cup team will have Meggs, Donovan Pagon, Nikita Miller, Marlon Samuels and Fitzroy Peterkin, among others.
The Twenty/20 cricket festival will be followed by a dance featuring popular disco Stone Love. Admission for the dance is $200.
