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BENJAMIN Button strapped on the pads and opened the batting for the Sydney Thunder last night.
Actually, there was two of him.
Neither Mike Hussey nor Jacques Kallis has much in common with Brad Pitt but just like the Hollywood movie, the champion cricketers keep getting younger.
ROOKIE IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE
The man they call Mr Cricket started the fireworks against the Brisbane Heat when he smashed 96 off 60 balls including seven massive sixes.
Fellow 39-year-old Kallis joined in the frenzy, belting an unbeaten 97 off 55 balls and clearing the ANZ Stadium boundary six times in a man-of-the-match performance.
The legendary South African all-rounder had a chance to hit a century on debut for the Thunder but swung too early off the last delivery from Heat quick Ryan Duffield.
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With cricket's ageless veterans producing an amazing display of power hitting, the Thunder smashed 1-208 to extinguish the Heat (all out 152). Gurinder Sandhu (3-19) and Andrew McDonald (3-20) were the stars with the ball for the Thunder while Pat Cummins (2-22) was also terrific.
Kallis was in the action again, taking the early wicket of Dan Christian and also catching new Test batsman Joe Burns for 28 in the deep. Burns copped a painful delivery in the ribs from Dirk Nannes but later indicated he would be fine for the Boxing Day Test.
Chris Lynn (40 off 26 balls) slaughtered some massive sixes off Queenslander Nathan Hauritz and Brisbane big-hitter Nathan Reardon whacked 49 off 25 balls but the Heat fell short.
Andrew Flintoff was caught for a duck. Photo by Mark Metcalfe. Source: Getty Images
Twenty20 was meant to be a young man's game but Hussey and Kallis made nonsense of that.
Mind you, former England captain Andy "Freddie" Flintoff was feeling every ache and pain in his 37-year-old body.
Flintoff was introduced in the sixth over and was brutally attacked by Hussey, finishing with the unflattering figures of 0-25 off two overs. Flintoff had a night to forget, out for a duck on his third delivery. However Hussey's extraordinary innings won high praise from current and former cricketers from all around the world.
"I reckon Michael Hussey would still get in every single cricket team in the world," Ashes-winning former England captain Michael Vaughan tweeted. And former Australian all-rounder Tom Moody made a valid point: "What's Mike Hussey doing over February and March 2015? #World Cup."
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Hussey was like a little kid in a candy shop as he loved every minute of his knock and thrived on batting with fellow veteran Kallis.
"It was great fun out there batting with Jacques Kallis, after playing against him all those years it is good to play with him," Hussey said.
After winning only one game in the last two seasons and at one stage losing 19 matches in a row, the Thunder have finally crackled to life and started the Big Bash season with a bang.
However one downer was a below-par crowd of 10,152 at the Homebush stadium, especially considering there were 12 former or current international players in action.
With empty seats everywhere, fans chose any vantage they wanted in the 82,000-capacity stadium.
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