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Cricket unites for tsunami victims

AFP, Melbourne
World cricket's elite gather here on Monday to raise an estimated 10 million dollars (7.5 million HS) for the Asian tsunami disaster.
The Rest of the World, led by Ricky Ponting, will take on the Sourav Ganguly-skippered Asia in a one-day international charity match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as world cricket's response to the shattering events on Indian Ocean shorelines a fortnight ago.
A sellout crowdofabout78,000and millions ofviewers from 122 countries will watch the special match, thrown togetheratshortnotice.
Not since Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in the late 1970s has there been a more star-studded gathering of cricket talent in Australia for one match.
Three of the four all-time leading Test wicket-takers, including the top two Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitliaran, and leading batsmen such as Brian Lara and Ponting ■will play.
All proceeds from the match will go to aid agency World Vision, which has already raised more than 20 million dollars (15 million US) for tsunami victims this weekend from
a mass concert and telethon.
"Having a gathering of players like this in Melbourne is great for this game and it's obviously going to be great for the tsunami relief fund," PontingsaidSunday.
"It's great to sec people have come from all around the world to do whatever we can as a player group and as a cricket community for people that are a lot less fortunate than us."
The match has been pulled together in just 12 days, with most of the players assembling here Sunday for a media conference and light training.
No official estimate has been put on the funds likely to be raised from the match, but privately 10 million dollars is being talked about as a realistic aim, with one million dollars (750,000 US) already generated in ticket sales, one million dollars pledged by the match sponsor and 1,000 dollars a run to be donated by amobile phone company.
AU proceeds from food and drink sales, auctions of signed shirts on website eBay, and a telethon to be held in conjunction with the match on the Nine Network will also swell the coffers to aid World Vision's work in the devastatedregion.
Australian wicketkeeper Adam ambassador, said he hoped the help tsunami victims wouldn't be Ichrist, who is also aWorldVision nation's outpouring of generosity to FROM PAGE 13 one-off event.
"It shouldn’t just take one freak act of nature to realise just how generous we canbe,"Gilchrist said.
"There are wonderful long-term opportunities to realise that we can lendahand."
Several of the players taking parr, including Muralitharan and Srl Lankan teammate Sanath Jayasuriya, have been helpingin the reliefefibrt by visiting the worst-hit regions with food parcels.
For Muralitharan, the match will be his first in five months after shoulder surgery and is his first in Australia since he boycotted Sri Lanka's tour after a furore over Iris suspect bowling action.
But Muralitharan said he was expecting better treatment on Sunday than in the past fromAustralian fans.
The International Cricket Council has declared the match an official one-day International, meaning statistics from the game will count on players' careerrecords.
"Everyone here has got that competitive instinct within them, otherwise they wouldn’t be here and they wouldn't be recognised as being some of the best players in the world," Pontingsaid.
"The idea is to put on the best possible show we can and make it the best spectacle for cricket fans all around the world.”
Tsunamis killed more than 156,000 people when they crashed into Indian Ocean coastlines on BoxingDay.
TEAMS
ASIAN XI (from): Sourav Ganguly (India/captain), Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri
Lanka), Virender Sehwag (India), Rahul Dravid (India), Yousuf Youliana (Pakistan), Alok Kapali (Bangladesh), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan), Chaminda Mias (Sri Lanka), Zaheer Khan (India), Anil Kumble (India), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka),SachinTendulkar (India).
Coach/manager. Bob Wbolmer (Paki-
REST OFTHE WORLD: Ricky Ponting (Australia/captain), Matthew Hayden (Australia), Adam Gilchrist (Australia), Stephen Fleming (New Zealand), Brian Lara (West Indies), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Chris Cairns (New Zealand), Shane Warne (Australia), Glenn McGrath (Australia), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Darren Gough (England), Daniel Vettori (New Zealand).
Coach/manager Steve Waugh (Australia).
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (South Africa) and Billy Bowden (New Zealand).