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Double troule for Pak

Facing up to one Lillee was bad enough -- when Pakistan lands in Australia this October, it will have the dubious pleasure of facing two, one from each end.

Dennis Lillee, at the ripe age of 50, will team up with son Adam, all of 25, for the Australian Cricket Board Chairman's X1 in a one-day tour-launching festival match against Pakistan on October 26.

This game will probably see the last appearance by Dennis Lillee on a cricket field. The taker of 355 Test wickets, now busy with a coaching career that includes stints at the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai, retired from first class cricket over a decade ago, but has made a practise, each summer, of appearing in the traditional festival clash at Lilac Hill Park, Caversham, in Western Australia's Swan Valley district.

Lillee indicated that he was looking forward to his first -- and last -- team up with son Adam, a bowler with an action very similar to his father's. "It will be a nice way to bow out of the game," the legendary paceman said, "provided my knees hold out."

The elder Lillee weighed in with a word of caution to the spectators, indicating that it wouldn't be a good thing if the weight of expectations began pressing down on his son. Adam Lillee's cricket career has been severely hampered by leg problems, which he has now overcome. Since his comeback from injury last season, he showed good form at the end of last season with the Claremont-Nedlands second and third-grade sides in the Perth District competitions.