Gilly puts fans in the middle

Above footage courtesy Lord's Cricket Ground

Adam Gilchrist has given fans the best insight yet into what it's like facing down a 150km/h thunderbolt with the eyes of the world on your every move.

Gilchrist further excited already excitable cricket fans around the world when he strode out to bat in the Lord's bicentennial match with a GoPro camera fixed to his helmet.

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Gilchrist opened the batting for the Rest of the World XI along with Virender Sehwag and the pair had made their way to 33 after five overs when Marylebone Cricket Club XI skipper Sachin Tendulkar brought on Shaun Tait.

Having blocked out a loosener from Tait, Gilchrist flashed a wide ball through cover point to the boundary, and followed that up next ball with a vintage straight drive back past the bowler and to the fence beneath the Lord's media centre – the first delivery seen in the video above.

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"Getting there!" Gilchrist tells Sehwag, before adding with a chuckle, "Ah, this is fun!"

Tait, perhaps didn't think it was as much fun; his next ball was called wide.

Then came the bouncer, the second delivery in the above video. Gilchrist hooked it away in front of square towards the famous Lord's clock tower and weather vane, the ball landing just in front of the rope.

The oohs of the crowd are audible, but Tait's words to Gilchrist are not. Perhaps it was 'Nice shot' as Gilly responds "Ha! Good cricket all round" before checking his bat for a cherry.

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Sharing a laugh and a fist-bump with Sehwag mid-pitch Gilchrist declares: "I just got enough of it, just got enough!"

"I knew it wasn't going to be long before he tried to hit the GoPro."