Comedian Rory Bremner and former King of the Jungle Phil Tufnell will be among a line-up of celebrities hoping to hit a six as a charity cricket match gets under way at Blenheim Palace this weekend.

Sport and TV personalities will be at the Woodstock stately home for a Bunbury Celebrity Cricket Club game on Sunday.

Among the line-up will be ITN newsreader Mark Austin, Leicestershire Cricket Club player Charlie Dagnall, actor and presenter Fraser Hines, and ex-referee Steve Bennett.

The game will start on the the palace's South Lawn at 2.30pm and among spectators will be the 11th Duke of Marlborough.

The celebrities and cricketers are part of the Bunbury Celebrity Cricket Club, set up in 1987 by Dr David English to raise funds for charities. So far the club which includes other celebrities such as Elton John, Phil Collins, Sam Fox, and Joanna Lumley has raised more than £9m by playing at test grounds, sports fields and village greens across the country.

Money has been distributed to charities, including the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Cancer Research, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Mencap and Leukaemia Research.

The Bunburys played at Blenheim last year, attracting a crowd of about 1,000 people.

This year, a range of other events are also taking place at the palace the same day. Hundreds of cyclists will set off from the palace in the morning for The Oxford Big Bike Ride, organised in association with the Anthony Nolan Trust.

Later in the day, the Duke will move to the palace's Great Court to join The Blenheim Company from Sandhurst military academy. The company will be mounting displays of military ceremony and the Duke will take the salute at 3pm.

There will also be clog dancing and musical performances in the palace's Long Library.

Palace spokesman Gemma Mason said: "This will be an experience you will never forget."

Admission to palace grounds starts from £9 for adults and £4.50 for children, or from £23 for a family of four.