In January 2015, Chatswood Oval hosted a visitor that grade cricket grounds rarely see — a sitting Australian captain.

Michael Clarke had been sidelined with a back injury in the closing months of 2014, and with the Cricket World Cup just weeks away, he needed to prove his fitness to national selectors. The solution was straightforward enough: get some time in the middle, playing real cricket against real opposition. And so it was that one of the most recognisable sportsmen in the country quietly turned up to play for his club side, Western Suburbs, in a grade match against Gordon.

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