My man's worth
Today, a charity cricket match was played at the MCG in hope to raise $10 million for the devastated areas in Asia. It was a success, they raised over $10 mil as of about 15 minutes ago and it is not stopping yet. The match was played between Asia and the Rest of the World. Asia included Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. Rest of the World was Australia, NZ, Windies, England.
Donations were coming from different parties and in different ways. Viewers can call and donate. Corporations too. Toyota donated $50,000 for each six that's been hit- the final amount was $350,000. 3 Mobile donated $1,000 per run scored and the final total runs scored by both teams was 576 so $576,000. The Packers' family and their companies chipped in $3 mil.
Another thing (which gave the title to this msg) is that each of the player's shirt which they wore and then signed are auctioned off on eBay. They are all on their way to getting thousands and thousands of dollars. It is a perfect way to raise funds considering the obsession of this nation with sports and sporting memorabilias.
My man Dan's shirt so far is up to $4,650. There's still about 19 hours til the bidding closes. Of course, I would never dream of being able to afford these sorts of memorabilias. But I wonder if one day, maybe, I could. I mean, if I couldn't own the man himself, it would be nice to get something of his right?
(Look, I don't feel like going into that relationship today. Maybe some other day ok?)
All in all, it's a magnificent effort. Aside from the funds raised, as a cricket fan, it is quite fantastic to watch the world great crickets playing in one match. Especially seeing the usual rivals laughing along and congratulating each other. That's the spirit of sports after all right?
Now just for my own record more than anything, the players included:
Chris Gayle
Adam Gilchrist
Ricky Ponting
Stephen Fleming
Chris Cairns
Daniel Vettori
Glenn McGrath
Brian Lara
Shane Warne
Darren Gough
Matthew Hayden
Steve Waugh
Virendah Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Zaheer Khan
Sourav Ganguly
Muttiah Muralitharan
Chaminda Vaas
Abdul Razzaq
Jayasuriya
Yousuf Yohana
Sangakkara
Anil Kumble
Pretty impressive line up ey?
Donations were coming from different parties and in different ways. Viewers can call and donate. Corporations too. Toyota donated $50,000 for each six that's been hit- the final amount was $350,000. 3 Mobile donated $1,000 per run scored and the final total runs scored by both teams was 576 so $576,000. The Packers' family and their companies chipped in $3 mil.
Another thing (which gave the title to this msg) is that each of the player's shirt which they wore and then signed are auctioned off on eBay. They are all on their way to getting thousands and thousands of dollars. It is a perfect way to raise funds considering the obsession of this nation with sports and sporting memorabilias.
My man Dan's shirt so far is up to $4,650. There's still about 19 hours til the bidding closes. Of course, I would never dream of being able to afford these sorts of memorabilias. But I wonder if one day, maybe, I could. I mean, if I couldn't own the man himself, it would be nice to get something of his right?
(Look, I don't feel like going into that relationship today. Maybe some other day ok?)
All in all, it's a magnificent effort. Aside from the funds raised, as a cricket fan, it is quite fantastic to watch the world great crickets playing in one match. Especially seeing the usual rivals laughing along and congratulating each other. That's the spirit of sports after all right?
Now just for my own record more than anything, the players included:
Chris Gayle
Adam Gilchrist
Ricky Ponting
Stephen Fleming
Chris Cairns
Daniel Vettori
Glenn McGrath
Brian Lara
Shane Warne
Darren Gough
Matthew Hayden
Steve Waugh
Virendah Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Zaheer Khan
Sourav Ganguly
Muttiah Muralitharan
Chaminda Vaas
Abdul Razzaq
Jayasuriya
Yousuf Yohana
Sangakkara
Anil Kumble
Pretty impressive line up ey?
posted by S-n-O-o-P-y at 2:58 AM
3 Comments:
aside from a limited few names that i recognise all i can do is to watch the bid and let you know how much it finally ended up... well get well babe i'm sure one day you'll get close enough :)
come on stell...u should buy the Dan shirt...i remember a few years ago u told me u wanted to buy one...do u remember why? so u could use it as your PJs and say u slept with Dan! and this one has his sweat and everything too...more realistic...hehehehe...u crack me up...
I already have Dan's shirt. My friends gave it to me for my 23rd bday. It's the normal NZ Black Cap ODI shirt. No. 11. (Hey did you notice? He had 11 in the charity match too. He must've beat McGrath to it!!!)
Oh you have no idea how tempted I was to cancel my trup to Europe and buy that shirt. And the sweat and smell have definitely crossed my mind!!! But, I thought to myself that if I did, then I have crossed the line over to Sick-ObsessionLand!! And, I'm above that. Dan and my relationship is above that!
I'm glad I crack you up. I aim to please =)
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