Copeland was part of the Australia Legends outfit which beat a World XI team packed full of English players in their 2017 Festival of Cricket clash.

There was somewhat of an Ashes feel as the likes of Michael Kasprowicz and Glenn McGrath bowled at a line-up including Michael Vaughan and Adam Hollioake at the University of Western Australia Sports Park.

The Australian’s posted four-wicket win, making 8-183 after earlier restricting the visitors to 7-179.

But as Copeland pointed out, the main priority for the Twenty 20 match was to have fun and entertain the crowd.

“It was good fun. It has been a well publicised game every year and obviously for a good cause, the fun is the priority,” he said.

“The atmosphere was great, the corporate guys there had a really good time and the fans enjoyed getting signatures of all the legends – not me, the McGrath, Kasprowicz, Katich, Michael Vaughan type guys.

“It sort of felt like a pre-season game scenario with a little bit more added fun. I was fielding at long off whilst Adam Voges was bowling and I sort of ducked into a few of the corporate tents, had a sit down with the punters and had a bit of a chat.

“It turned out to be a pretty good game too.”

Copeland was not required to bat, watching on as Voges (41 off 27) top scored for the hosts to back up his 3-25 off three overs earlier in the day.

Copeland also did a job with the ball for the Australian side, taking 3-29 off his four overs. He bowled English T20 representative Liam Livingstone and had English Lions pair Nick Gubbins and Paul Coughlin caught out.

“I think in T20 cricket, you can easily get none for 50 or take a few wickets, you’ve just got to brush it off and not get too caught up in the figures as a bowler,” he said.

“But it’s always nice to get a few [catches] go to hand. 

“I got a few younger guys, current England Lions players, but Adam Voges got all the big wickets, I just sort of chimed in there at the end.”