SYDNEY, Oct 10: Ashes foes Andrew Flintoff and Adam Gilchrist agreed Monday that the tarnished World XI’s quality will come through in Friday’s Super Test cricket match against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The world all-stars were an embarrassment in going down by a massive 156 runs to the fired-up Aussies in Sunday’s final one-dayer to lose the Melbourne series 3-0 raising fears that the six-day Test will be another flop.

But Flintoff, the scourge of the Australians with bat and ball as England regained the Ashes last month, believes the longer form of the game will allow the World XI more scope to realise their talents than in the scramble of the 50-overs format.

“It is a fine group of players coming together and in some ways probably playing Test cricket might be slightly easier than the one-day game,” Flintoff told reporters here Monday.—AFP