Tendulkar, Walsh to perform coaching duties in bushfire charity match, confirms Cricket Australia

The match will be organised to raise funds for Australia's bushfire victims.

Tendulkar will coach the Ricky Ponting XI | Getty

Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Caribbean bowling great Courtney Walsh will be performing coaching duties in the bushfire charity match, announced Cricket Australia on Tuesday (January 21).

While Tendulkar will coach the Ricky Ponting XI, Walsh will do the same for Shane Warne XI. The match will be organised to raise funds for Australia's bushfire victims.

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The bushfire relief cricket match is one of the three generous acts on cricket's day of giving, The Big Appeal. The other two events are Commonwealth Bank Women's Tri-Series T20I clash between India and Australia and the final of the KFC Big Bash.

The match named 'Bushfire Cricket Bash' will be played on February 8. Tendulkar and Walsh will coach greats such as Ponting, Warne, Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Shane Watson, Alex Blackwell, and Michael Clarke, among others.

"We are absolutely honoured to be welcoming Sachin (Tendulkar) and Courtney (Walsh) back to Australia where they both enjoyed a lot of success as players, and we can't wait to have them involved," said Cricket Australia CEO Kevin Roberts.

"We're looking forward to our people at CA and the entire Australian cricket family coming together for the Big Appeal."

The funds raised from the match will go to the Australian Red Cross.

As per the media reports, hundreds of fires have scorched more than 6 million hectares (15 million acres) of bushland and left 29 people dead. Moreover, the bushfire has destroyed over 2000 homes in the last few months.

(Inputs from cricket.com.au)

 

 
 

By Salman Anjum - 21 Jan, 2020

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