BURY Cricket Club is to play host to one of the finest collections of world talent ever assembled.

Next Friday (July 26) a match will be held at the Radcliffe Road ground between a Bury Select XI and Lashings Cricket Club.

Lashings are a club team based at a Kent wine bar whose team sheet reads like a Who's Who of cricket.

Already confirmed for the Bury fixture are names such as Jimmy Adams (pictured left), Stuart Williams, Junior Murray, Sherwin Campbell, all of the West Indies, Grant Flower and Stuart Carlisle from Zimbabwe and Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi of Pakistan.

It is hoped that the names of Brian Lara, Courtney Walsh and Curtley Ambrose may be added later.

The game is being held to raise money for Hope Hospital's renal unit at the request of Bury professional Steve Dublin who underwent life-saving kidney surgery there a couple of years ago.

Steve will captain the Bury side which will be made up mainly of local professionals and a couple of Bury players.

It promises to be a massive occasion for the club, who join Kent, Lancashire and India on the Lashings fixture list for 2002.

The event will start at 1.30pm with plenty of opportunities for autograph hunters. Admission is £3 for adults £1 for children under 16. For further information contact Peter Allen on 0161-797 1791 or 0161-834 4100 or Jeff Coles on 0161-764 4291.