BRENTWOOD cricketer Joe Buttleman admitted he will never forget the starring role he played in his side's win over the Lashings All-stars.
Buttleman took three wickets and then hit an unbeaten 49 as the home side secured a five-wicket win in the third successive match up between the sides.
It means Brentwood now have a 2-1 advantage over the World XI, and plans are already being made for next year's clash.
Buttleman removed Inzamam Ul-Haq, Mohammed Yousuf and Wasim Jaffer in his figures of 3-35, before whacking his 49 from 26 balls to help his side home.
And he said: "It was good, it's probably my favourite fixture of the year. It's a great experience to play against them. You raise your game when you play against them.
"But it's the same whether you're bowling at a club cricketer or a Test cricketer, if you get the ball in the right area then you've got a chance of getting a wicket."
A crowd in excess of 500 turned out to watch the fixture, with the Lashings side also including former West Indies greats Gordon Greenidge and Courtney Walsh.
And Buttleman believes the professional attitude his side showed was a key component in their success.
"We try and be as professional as we can as a side," he added. "We pride ourselves on being as good club cricketers as there are in the country.
"Most of us have played at a level where we were professional or just short of professional and we're just keen to keep playing and be as good as we can.
"It was a great crowd, I like playing up to the crowd as well so to have 500 people there to see you do well and obviously you've got friends and family there so it's a great day for Brentwood Cricket Club.
"It's up there with the best days of cricket I've had in my career certainly, and the batting as well, that's particularly pleasing because you've got Saqlain Mushtaq turning it both ways so you really have to concentrate. It's nice when it comes off and all the practice and hard work through the winter and training comes off.
"The pressure's off because you've got nothing to lose against such a fantastic bowler with such a variety of different deliveries.
"You go out there and although you don't play with complete freedom because there's obviously still nerves, you do play with a certain amount of freedom because if it comes off, it comes off and if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. Sometimes when the pressure's off I play my best cricket."
Lashings may be full of now-retired cricketers but the loss they suffered at the Old County Ground was only the second defeat of their 2013 campaign, and Buttleman admitted it was a tough game.
He added: "They do take it seriously because we've had two close games with them before.
"We said to the captain Jon Walford that we thought they'd bring a strong side and they did, certainly with the batting and we're lucky that we were able to keep them down to a total we could chase.
"We've got a very strong batting line-up, so even though we lost a couple of early wickets we still fancied ourselves on that wicket."
