The historic flavor of the encounter is given an extra dimension by the travails of two of Australia's players: one of the game's greatest-ever batsmen, and another who might have been if he'd been picked in a Test match before the age of 30 Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey.
Bichel decided he'd pitch one up and knock over my stumps, but I swung and drove loudly past Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn in the covers (my imagination was into overdrive).