Charity Works by Cricketers

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In this thread, you can post any news articles and videos related to charity work done by past and present cricketers, or stories about cricketers participating in such events. I'm starting with this, Beefy's Big Sri Lanka Walk 2013 Webiste: http://www.beefysbigsrilankawalk.com/ QzcXcyt_KmQ Sir Beefy has been doing this walk for some time now, dDfNsMOsJfY I know a lot of other players involve in various charity work, some of them privately without much publicity and some others are famous like Imran Khan with his cancer hospital. You can posts all such information about both past and present cricketers here. Another example - Powell launches ‘Cricket Star Search’ with Foundation of Goodness Young player :hatsoff: Found some more from someone's comment but not sure about the accuracy of some of the information; Glenn McGrath - McGrath Foundation Michael Clarke Life Education Australia, Cancer Council Doug Bollinger Canteen Callum Ferguson Graham Manou Foundation Brad Haddin ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group Nathan Hauritz Salvation Army Ryan Harris Cancer Council Ben Hilfenhaus Camp Quality Mike Hussey Princess Margaret Hospital for Children Phillip Hughes NSW Farmers Association Mitchell Johnson Camp Quality Shaun Marsh SolarisCare's Chemo Club Brett Lee Mewsic Foundation and several others Picky Ponting Ricky Ponting Foundation Peter Siddle Challenge Steven Smith Prince of Wales Hospital Foundation Cameron White Challenge Aussies :hatsoff:

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Sachin is on the board of CARE hospitals, he was named by APJ Abdul Kalam as his replacement. Once he joined, hospital has been taking care of total expenses of even state level sportsmen and women. This includes even by-pass surgeries He sponsors 250 children from the slums in Tordeo and takes care of complete expenses of theirs from clothing to books to uniform to school fees Sachin raised over 1 crore for crusade against cancer and over 7 crore to help build toilets for girls across 140 government schools in India Apart from this, he never refuses even ad hoc requests from former friends or colleagues. For example, when one of the players he played with at U-17, Dalbir Singh Gill, met with an accident and was in a coma, his poor family contacted Sachin. Sachin paid for all his entire expenses

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Ishant sharma has done more charity work than anyone else in recent times :cantstop:

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Sachin is on the board of CARE hospitals, he was named by APJ Abdul Kalam as his replacement. Once he joined, hospital has been taking care of total expenses of even state level sportsmen and women. This includes even by-pass surgeries He sponsors 250 children from the slums in Tordeo and takes care of complete expenses of theirs from clothing to books to uniform to school fees Sachin raised over 1 crore for crusade against cancer and over 7 crore to help build toilets for girls across 140 government schools in India Apart from this, he never refuses even ad hoc requests from former friends or colleagues. For example, when one of the players he played with at U-17, Dalbir Singh Gill, met with an accident and was in a coma, his poor family contacted Sachin. Sachin paid for all his entire expenses

Master is Master off the field as well.:hatsoff:

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:(( wont be able see him on the field after the 2 matches.

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Virat Kohli's all heart foundation Charity. All actors and Cricketers even came to help him organise a football match too in which Ranbir Kapoor and Dhoni and all played in Nehru stadium. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bcGe21YFs]All Stars Football Club VS All Heart Football Club Match Part 4 - YouTube[/ame]

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Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital Documentary DLumRg7ky-U

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Virat Kohli's all heart foundation Charity. All actors and Cricketers even came to help him organise a football match too in which Ranbir Kapoor and Dhoni and all played in Nehru stadium.

What a finish by Dhoni at 2:44, even in football.:hatsoff:

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Ishant sharma has done more charity work than anyone else in recent times :cantstop:

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Cricket legends to join Botham during charity walk October 30, 2013, 10:20 pm by Rex Clementine Sir Ian Botham will be joined by several leading cricketers during his eight day walk across Sri Lanka including his Ashes rival Steve Waugh. Several leading cricket stars are expected to join Sir Ian Botham’s charity walk from Killinochchi to Seenigama spreading over eight days. The walk titled ‘Beefy’s Big Sri Lankan Walk’ is in aid of the charity Foundation of Goodness is planning to establish in north. Sri Lanka cricketers Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara and Chaminda Vaas are trustees of the charity run by former Cricket Board Secretary Kushil Gunasekara. The organizers said that the walk will be joined by former India captains Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly and Botham’s Ashes rivals Alan Border and Steve Waugh. Former rugby great Morne du Plessis, who managed the 1995 World Cup winning South African team will also join the walk. The walk that gets underway on the 1st of November will start at 8:00 am each day. On the first day Sir Ian is expected to walk from Killinochchi to Mankulam, the site of the Northern Project of Foundation of Goodness. The walk is expected to take five hours and the former speedster is expected to walk at a speed of seven kilometers an hour. Yesterday, Botham urged Sri Lankans to join his walk. "We have people flying from all over the world to walk with us, who have signed up with Paradise Vacations, our Official Tour Partner. The more walkers the merrier we will be! We are also encouraging everyone to sign up and walk with us for a day," he said in a statement. Botham has been a prodigious fundraiser for charitable causes and so far has done 12 long-distance charity walks. His first walk was undertaken while still he was active as a player. His efforts have raised more than 12 million Pounds for charity with most of them going for Leukemia Research. How much will this walk raise, Botham was asked? "If we say one million, everyone will stop with one million. We will try to raise as much as we can. We are pretty good at highway robberies you know." His latest walk was in April for Leukemia Research and it raised a total of 1,600,000 British Pounds. "The Sri Lankan walk is the toughest thing that I have agreed to do. It’s going to be 40 degrees out there. But it’s for a great cause. It’s a tough schedule to keep up, but I am determined. Nothing is going to stop me from completing the Walk," he added. Sir Ian Botham’s Schedule = November 1st Killinochchi Central College – Mankulam Cricket Ground = November 2nd Anuradhapura Cargills Food City – Mihinthale School Ground = November 3rd Sigiriya Rock – Dambulla Stadium = November 4th Kandy, Cargills Food City - Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage = November 5th Colombo, Galle Face Green – Premadasa Stadium = November 6th Hambantota Cargills Food City - Hambantota Public Ground = November 7th Martara Cargills Food City – The Fortress Hotel = November 8th Galle Cargills Food City – Seenigama Cricket Ground Walks will start at 8:00am each day. http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=91191