West Indies great Brian Lara has been added to the star-studded list of players, including Shane Warne and Peter Siddle, who will play in the MCC v Rest of the World Lord’s Bicentenary match on July 5.

Lara will play alongside fellow all-time batting great Sachin Tendulkar for MCC, with Finch, currently the world’s leading Twenty20 batsman, also in the hosts line-up.

Australia paceman Siddle, a thorn in England’s side during the Ashes, will join Nottinghamshire team-mate and former Test wicket-keeper Chris Read in the MCC side.

Fast bowlers Umar Gul (Pakistan) and Tino Best are the final names to be added to the MCC and Rest of the World sides respectively.

Tendulkar will captain an MCC XI that also includes another retired India batting star in Rahul Dravid, Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal – whose action was recently called into question by England’s Stuart Broad – and former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee.

Meanwhile Shane Warne, arguably cricket’s greatest leg-spinner, will captain a Rest of the World XI that includes his former Hampshire team-mate Kevin Pietersen, now in England ‘exile’, as well as Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi.

“Lord’s always holds a very special place in any cricketer’s heart, and I am very much looking forward to helping celebrate its Bicentenary with MCC,” Lara said in a statement on Wednesday.

“It was an honour to be asked to be involved and it will be fantastic to play at such an iconic place on such a special occasion.”

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, moved to its present site in the north-west London suburb of St John’s Wood in 1814, with the ground then owned by Thomas Lord – hence its name – before the club bought him out.