DEAN Jones plans to lobby for Victoria to play in a Twenty20 match at the Queen Elizabeth Oval to raise more money for the bushfire appeals.Jones, the former Australian cricketer, was the star attraction at Saturday night’s inaugural Pride of Bendigo Challenge Twenty20 match between the Bendigo District and Emu Valley cricket associations at the QEO.Following an early scare from Emu Valley, Bendigo won by 19 runs in the hit-and-giggle match to raise money for Bendigo’s bushfire survivors.The game was played in front of a massive crowd that paid more than $6500 at the gate.Jones, now 47, played for the Emu Valley side, and was involved in every facet of the game - making 15 opening the batting, taking an outfield catch, while also bowling an over.The match was Jones’ first ever in the Twenty20 format, while it was also his first game on a turf pitch for seven years.Following the match, Jones was full of praise for the two associations for organising the bushfire appeal game, and for the QEO.“I might try to get Cricket Victoria to see if it can get Victoria to play the Victorian Country XI in a Twenty20 match up here to raise some more money,” Jones told The Advertiser.“This is a quality venue, there’s no worries about that.“I really enjoyed the game - it was played in good spirit and it was good fun to meet the guys.“I was just stoked with the night and, hopefully, we raised enough money that can be used to help someone’s life affected by the fires, even if it’s just for a day.”Bendigo went into Saturday night’s game as the warm favourite, but was on the backfoot right from the outset after batting first.Within the first four balls of the Bendigo innings, Emu Valley speedster Keiran Nihill had bowled openers Andrew Smith (0) and Ben Gunn (0).After removing Smith and Gunn, Nihill later dismissed Heath Behrens (7) and dangerman Tim Wood (7), who made 130 earlier in the day, to have four wickets in his first 14 balls.After the side struggled dismally during the week with the bat at Melbourne Country Week, it looked as though Bendigo was going to be unable to last its 20 overs when it slumped to 9-78 in the 13th.However, Ben Devanny and Nick Crawford shared in an unbroken stand of 66 for the 10th wicket to push the score to 9-144.Devanny top scored for Bendigo with 43 off 32 balls, while Crawford finished 20 not out off 23.Apart from Devanny and Crawford, the only other Bendigo players to reach double figures were Linc McRae (15 off 14), Dylan Cuttriss (13 off 16) and Matt Fitt (12 off 8).Nihill finished with 4-25 off four overs, while Nick Manley, who bowled first change, also claimed four wickets.Manley took 4-22, taking a wicket in each of his four overs.The only other wicket-taker was Tim Mannes (1-31), who dismissed Bendigo captain Adam Burns (4), which left the score 4-21 in the fourth over.Jones started the game fielding in slips, before later moving to what was his more customary position while playing for Australia - patrolling the boundary.Jones was involved in the seventh Bendigo wicket to fall when he caught McRae at deep mid-wicket off the bowling of Manley.Jones bowled the 14th over of the Bendigo innings, but didn’t show the form that saw him take one Test and three one-day wickets for Australia. Devanny scored 15 runs off the Jones’ over, which was the most expensive over of the Bendigo innings.Chasing 145 - Jones’ highest one-day score for Australia - to record an upset win, Jones opened the batting for Emu Valley with Travis O’Connell.Jones faced the first ball of the innings, getting off the mark immediately with a cut shot off a rising Ben DeAraugo delivery.However, before he got to face another ball, O’Connell (0), Scott Ross (5) and Matt Beck (2) were all dismissed as Emu Valley crashed to 3-8 in the second over, which soon became 4-14 in the fourth.While his hair may be a little more greyer than in his Australian days, Jones still looked the class batsman of yesteryear, as he played with that confident swagger that he so often did in his 52 Test matches and 164 one-day internationals.The crowd got their money’s worth, with Jones’ innings lasting until the 10th over before he was bowled by Devanny, playing on an attempted cut-shot.Jones made 15 off 21 balls, hitting 11 singles and one crisp boundary through mid-off, which was his last scoring shot. His dismissal left Emu Valley 6-42.Jones, who used a specially made Michael Hussey bat, was one of six Emu Valley players to make double figures, along with Shane Robinson (20 off 19), Ken Bell (19 off 15), Manley (16 off 6), captain Shaun Makepeace (14 off 15) and Brenton Dillon (14 off 5).Emu Valley used 13 batsmen, recovering from 7-46 in the 11th over to make 125.Bendigo used 13 different bowlers, with players such as Behrens, Fitt, Gunn and Wood, who aren’t renowned for their bowling ability, getting a rare opportunity with the ball.Opening bowler Marcus Smalley (3-11) was Bendigo’s leading wicket-taker.DeAraugo (2-3) and and Tyrone Downie (2-12) each took two wickets.