Cricket: Aussie star Glenn Maxwell has branded the mid-game light shows at the World Cup as the 'dumbest idea for cricketers'
being set up for him, along with a testimonial lunch held at the MCG last week — hosted by Eddie McGuire and attended by cricket greats including brothers Ian and Trevor.
But unlike Lillee and Marsh, Chappell didn’t receive a fundraising testimonial at the end of his career to help set him up after retiring from cricket. “The Chappell Foundation is run by Darshak Mehta and 100 per cent of the money that is raised gets distributed,” Maloney said. “I guess that was the irony that he was the face of it and turning up to every function and he’s raising all this money while he didn’t have a hell of a lot himself.
“It is just my friends who realised that we didn’t get a lot and just to make sure that Judy and I were comfortable in our retirement,” Chappell said.
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