This Saturday's second Legends of Cricket Twenty20 at Oakes Oval features some of Australia's greatest cricketers, such as Adam Gilchrist, Michael Kasparovwicz, Jason Gillespie, Andy Bichel, Dan Christian, Steve O'Keefe, Sammy-Jo Johnston and Georgie Redmayne.

This year, two band members from iconic Australian bands, one a Lismore local, will don the whites and grace the Oakes Oval turf in the name of Lismore's flood recovery.

Pat Davern is the guitarist with local rock band Grinspoon (Chemical Heart and Better Off Alone), and Bernard Fanning, the frontman of Powderfinger and also known for his solo work, will be the outsiders on a field of champions and budding champions. But they are no lesser names, just in a different field, and both willing to play for Lismore's flood recovery cause.

When asked about his cricketing prowess, Pat told the Lismore App, "My cricketing prowess is pretty much non-existent. I played a little bit of cricket growing up, but I have not put bat to ball or glove to bat or ball to hand for 20 years, I don't reckon. But, you know, the things you do in the name of a good cause, right?

"Hopefully, there's not going be any chin music coming my way from any of these top-quality Australian bowlers."

Being in the Mayor's 11, Pat could face Jason Gillespie or Michael Kasprowicz, but he hopes his good friend Bernard Fanning will bowl to him and vice versa. In his limited junior cricket days, Pat described himself as an allrounder. He batted at number six and bowled medium pacers.

"I hope I get an opportunity to throw some down. I mean, it'll be embarrassing, but I don't care. I'm, at the, I don't give a f&*% stage of my career now, so I'm going to give anything a go.

"I'm hoping it's just a gentle, non-competitive game of cricket, to be honest with you," he joked, "But I am going to be walking out there like the Michelin man no matter what happens."

It would also appear the art of sledging is not just reserved for the cricket field.

"When Bernard's batting and I'm on the fielding side, I will definitely be able to sledge him for sure. Back in the day, we used to call Powderfinger the Australian Eagle Show, and they used to call us Diet Pantera. But funnily enough, I played in Bernard's band for the last couple of years on his last tour. So, you know, we're old mates. But that won't stop any sledging, that's for sure.

When the chat got onto Bernard Fanning's cricketing prowess, Pat described him as cricket mad.

"It's funny, on the tour with him, I met Michael Kasprowicz, Usman Khawaja and Gilly when we were over in Perth, he hangs out with all the cricketers. He probably goes into the rooms at Lord's during the Ashes. He's that entrenched in Australian cricket. He loves cricket, and he loves talking cricket.

"He also professes to be handy with the bat. So let's see how that pans out, shall we?"

Pat still lives in the Northern Rivers, so he is very familiar with Lismore's flood rebuild.

"Oakes is great. You know what I mean? It's amazing they got that $12.5 million to do that redevelopment. It needed it, and what a fabulous way to spend the money from the local and state governments.

"It's coming back. Obviously, there's lots of empty shops on Magellan and Keen Street and all of that. It's a lot of work, I would imagine, to get it all together. I mean, we did the flood relief concert out at the Lismore Showgrounds; it was in an awful state then.

"Lismore has resilient people. It's a kind of a catch cry for the town, isn't it. They'll get back up on their feet. I don't know what the long-term solution is going to be because obviously it's going to flood again. That's inevitable. But people are very resilient, and they've done a great job so far at bringing it back.

"It's always been a good hub for me working in kind of the arts industry, arts and culture. Those kinds of things can survive and often thrive through adversity. So, you know, I'm the first person who's going to put my hand up to give them a hand when they need it. Hence, doing this cricket day and hopefully giving a little bit back to the community, which we're always trying to do."

As Mayor Steve Krieg has said previously, the cricketers will be out on the boundary signing autographs. Pat Davern said he would be too.

"If anyone wants one," he laughs. "There's a lot of big Australian cricket players who I'm sure are going to be the flavour of the day, but that's fine. I'm willing to represent the Park Street Boys of Grinspoon, who spent many years plying their trade over there. I should have got sponsored by the Golan Hotel."

You will see Pat Davern in his cricketing whites, not the stage, this Saturday at the Legends of Cricket Twenty20 match at Oakes Oval.

Gates open at 1pm with the match starting at 3pm.

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