Despite the heroics of Glenn McGrath, the All Star Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) XI were beaten by Michael Clarke’s Australian XI by seventeen runs in Brisbane.
There was only the brief opening partnership amongst Australia’s famous pairing, Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist. Thereafter the ACA fell to piece in the Australian All Start Twenty20 match.
Apart from Lee Carseldine whose name stuck out from the scorecard for his forty-one runs in what had become a losing cause chasing 173. For Shane Warne, the famed captaincy was not yielding the results this year. Travis Birt’s twenty-six runs were the final double digit figures on a scorecard that looked poor by comparison with just 156 for nine on board, despite the one player susbtitute.
Clint McKay shone with three wickets while Shaun Tait, Steven Smith and Peter Siddle picked three wickets apiece in the starry affair to show off the younger stars.
Nice though for Clarke to get a first Twenty20 win in Australia since being named Australia’s Twenty20 captain, albeit in a domestic encounter but against his famed predecessors and one time team mates.
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