MEL­BOURNE–Leg­endary for­mer West In­dies bats­man Bri­an Lara will join Adam Gilchrist, Dean Jones, Justin Langer and oth­er Aus­tralian leg­ends in the West­ern Aus­tralia Fes­ti­val of Crick­et Twen­ty20 ex­hi­bi­tion match which bowls off to­day.

The West­ern Aus­tralia Fes­ti­val of Crick­et, held at Aquinas Col­lege in Perth's south­ern sub­urbs, has re­vived the fa­mous Lilac Hill Fes­ti­val match that fin­ished in 2008.

Lara and the star-stud­ded Leg­ends XI will play a T20 ex­hi­bi­tion match against KFC T20 Big Bash League side the Perth Scorchers.

"The Fes­ti­val of Crick­et presents the pub­lic and cor­po­rates with a unique op­por­tu­ni­ty to not on­ly watch a high-qual­i­ty T20 match in a re­laxed, so­cial en­vi­ron­ment, but al­so to mix and min­gle with many cur­rent and past greats of the game," Gilchrist said.

"The chance to run around with a bunch of old mates and pit our­selves against the cur­rent BBL Cham­pi­ons is ex­cit­ing and sure to be en­ter­tain­ing for all."

The 45-year-old Lara, the most dom­i­nant West In­dies bats­man of his era, will take to the field along­side sev­er­al Aussie play­ers he faced dur­ing his il­lus­tri­ous ca­reer, with the likes of for­mer all-rounder An­drew Symonds, Andy Bichel, Michael Kasprow­icz and Jim­my Ma­her al­ready con­firmed by or­gan­is­ers.

Lara fea­tured in 131 Tests for West In­dies, scor­ing a record 11 953 runs with 34 100s.

The reshuf­fle of the Aus­tralian crick­et sched­ule in the wake of the death of Phillip Hugh­es al­so af­fect­ed the match.

The date change has ruled out Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting, and left Matthew Hay­den jug­gling com­mit­ments in an at­tempt to make it. (CMC)