The Kerry Packer Foundation was announced by
James Packer at the
MCG on 26 December 2006, with an
A$10 million endowment for the support of disadvantaged
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
ers in Australia. The announcement came on the first anniversary of the death of billionaire tycoon and cricket lover
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...
.
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References
Foundations based in Australia
Cricket in Australia
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