McLaren won the man-of-the-match award after he removed Gladiators' dangerman Hamish Marshall (65), Steve Adshead and Ian Fisher in successive deliveries.

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He knew the names of all the Mexican fighters as if they lived here, as if they were Dodgers players, like Steve Sax or Steve Yeager, Dusty Baker, Kenny Landreaux or Mike Marshall, Pedro Guerrero.

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Ryan Sidebottom, also fresh from Twenty20 duty, had already removed Steve Snell with a lifter, while Luke Fletcher had sent back the dangerous Hamish Marshall.

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