Dubbed ''Billy the Kid'', Craig McDermott starred immediately in Test cricket, taking six wickets against Clive Lloyd's Calypso Kings, highlighted by three middle-order wickets for one run which reduced the tourists to 5-154 on day one at the MCG.

Alister, 18, wasn't born then and was unaware of his old man's display apart from his first fortuitous scalp: Richie Richardson bowled for 51.

''I've seen replays of his first wicket ... it [slipped out and] hit the guy up near his gloves and went on to the stumps,'' he said yesterday.

The rising red-haired Queensland quick is now following even closer in Craig's footsteps after being selected to make his first-class debut against the Windies.

He will be 18 years and 164 days old when the four-day tour match starts tomorrow at Allan Border Field 75 days younger than when his father made his first-class match for Queensland in 1983.

Craig went on to make his Test debut just a year later, helping to end a six-match losing streak to the West Indies in the 1984-85 Boxing Day Test when Andrew Hilditch made a century to force a draw.

McDermott snr finished with 291 wickets at 28.63 in 71 Tests.

The modest Alister, a carbon copy of his dad in bowling action but not quite in pace or height, has little hope of gaining a baggy green at 19 as well but isn't bothered.

''That's a long way off, that's a long, long way off,'' he said. ''This should be a good test.''

McDermott gains his first-class debut after injury-hit Queensland opted to rest leading quicks Ben Cutting and Scott Walter.

He's shown great promise in one-day cricket this season, taking nine wickets at 21.55 with his steady medium-pace, using both seam and swing.

''You still have to bowl the top of off [stump] a lot and just don't bowl full to Chris Gayle because he'll hit you over your head,'' McDermott said.

Policeman Luke Feldman will also join Nathan Rimmington in Queensland's attack.

Rimmington will go head-to-head with former flatmate Brendan Nash, who shared a house with him and Mitchell Johnson before he left to play for Jamaica and the Windies in 2006. AAP