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Charity Cricket Match brings out the sun and the stars

Wednesday 17th June 2009

Sunday 24th May was a beautiful sunny day, when a team of stars from Emmerdale and Coronation Street played cricket against a team of celebrities at Shaw Lane Sports Club in Barnsley.

The charity cricket match was played in front of hundreds of people sitting or lying on the grass, listening to the evocative sounds of leather on willow, so typical of an English summer afternoon.

Children were kept amused with face painting, bouncy castle and other entertainment, as well as the ice cream vans, bar and food stalls.

Most important of all, the Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust’s fund for the Barnsley Dialysis Unit will benefit with a cheque for just under £2,000, along with the Sheffield Area Kidney Association and Sheffield Kidney Research, who all equally share the proceeds from the event. 

Thanks go to Mike Ryalls and his showbiz charity partner Neil Crossland for initiating the idea and Andrew Raftery who chaired the Charity Cricket Committee, along with the committee members who all put in many hours organising the event before and on the day and many other volunteers.

 

 

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