A few of England’s oldest residing cricketers are to be invited as particular visitors of Cricket Australia for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary Take a look at match extravaganza.
England return down below for a one-off, floodlit fixture versus Australia in Melbourne – anticipated to attract every day crowds of 100,000 – from March 11-15, 2027.
CA held its newest planning assembly for what is anticipated to be ‘an unforgettably big occasion’ on Tuesday and though particulars of what number of English cricketers will probably be flown over is but to be finalised, the VIP listing will certainly embrace all surviving members of the 1977 centenary Take a look at.
The Melbourne Cricket Floor performed host to the inaugural Take a look at match in March 1877 – 5 years earlier than the beginning of the Ashes – with Australia successful by 45 runs.
The Australians additionally gained the a centesimal anniversary match in 1977, once more on the MCG, by precisely the identical 45-run margin.
England’s XI for that match included Mike Brearley, now 83, Dennis Amiss, 82, Keith Fletcher, 81, plus 70-somethings Alan Knott, Derek Randall, Chris Previous and John Lever – all of whom will probably be requested to make the ten,500-mile journey again in 16 months’ time.
England’s oldest surviving cricketers from the 1977 check versus Australia are to be invited as particular visitors of Cricket Australia for the anniversary match in 2027 (Again row, L-R: Derek Randall, Bob Woolmer, Mike Hendrick, Bob Willis, Graham Roope and John Lever. Entrance row, L-R: Derek Underwood, Geoffrey Boycott, Mike Brearley, Tony Greig and Alan Knott)
4 have since handed away, so invitations will as a substitute be despatched to family of Bob Willis, Bob Woolmer, Derek Underwood and Tony Greig.
Extra ex-England stars will probably be on the airplane too, though the qualification standards is but to be decided.
The fashionable gesture by the Australians is in line with the 1977 fixture when the England workforce arrived with a big entourage of previous gamers.
Again then, all England gamers to have featured in 4 or extra Ashes Exams on Australian soil boarded the flight to participate within the week-long, off-field celebrations.
