Leg-spinner signs three-year contract with Sydney Sixers
Stuart MacGill is the latest former Australia international to come out of retirement to play in the Big Bash Twenty20 competition.
Leg-spinner MacGill took 208 wickets in 44 Tests before hand and wrist injuries prompted him to call it quits in 2008.
Now 40, he recently appeared in two T20 games in Sydney grade cricket, returning figures of 1-26 and 2-13, and has now signed a three-year deal with the Sydney Sixers Big Bash franchise.
Fellow leg-spinner Shane Warne, who MacGill played in the shadow of throughout his career, and opening batsman Matthew Hayden had already confirmed they are returning to the fray for the lucrative tournament.
MacGill's Sixers will take on Warne's Melbourne Stars at the Sydney Cricket Ground on December 27.
"I've got a rough understanding of the demands it places on the bowlers... I've always thought it was good for the old blokes," MacGill said of the T20 format, which he experienced in England when it first started.
"I don't know if I can spin it as far as I used to but they're spinning far enough. It doesn't really matter if you hit me over the fence. I've been hit there before."
Since retiring, MacGill has been a breakfast radio host and appeared as a television wine show presenter.
