{"id":4696,"date":"2010-09-08T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/hoggy-spins-in-to-help-pakistan-flood-ravaged\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:33","slug":"hoggy-spins-in-to-help-pakistan-flood-ravaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/hoggy-spins-in-to-help-pakistan-flood-ravaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoggy spins in to help Pakistan flood ravaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pakistan-floods-benefit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5815\" title=\"Pakistan floods benefit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pakistan-floods-benefit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Retired Australian slow bowler Brad Hogg will spin into Curtin this month to support a cricket match raising cash for the victims of the Pakistan floods disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The match between Pakistani and other cricketers associated with the university is part of the four-pronged <em>Helping Hand for Pakistan<\/em> program arranged by the Curtin Student Guild, Curtin College and Curtin Community Projects.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Pakistan-floods-benefit4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5826\" title=\"Pakistan floods benefit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Pakistan-floods-benefit4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time the three groups have gotten together to organise something like this,&#8221; Curtin Community Projects spokeswoman Maureen Meredith said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The match will definitely be competitive and it&#8217;s for such a good cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The floods have killed 1600 people and destroyed 750,000 houses in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Meredith said that 20 million people had been affected by the disaster &#8211; more than in the Haiti and Kashmir earthquakes and Indian Ocean tsunami combined.<\/p>\n<p>The 20\/20 &#8216;Curtin vs Pakistan&#8217; match will take place at Barblett Oval between 11am and 2pm Wednesday, September 15.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Meredith said Hogg would not be turning his arm over at the carnival atmosphere event but would likely participate in a prize-presenting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Funds raised will be split between several charities working for flood victims.<\/p>\n<p><em>Helping Hand for Pakistan<\/em> is also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raffling a Nintendo Wii with two games, and many other prizes &#8211; $2 for one ticket or three tickets for $5;<\/li>\n<li>hosting a quiz night in the main cafe, 6pm for a 6.30pm start (Tickets on sale from Student Guild reception; and<\/li>\n<li>throwing an all-day fundraiser on September 15, starting with breakfast outside the Guild (gold coin donation).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking for volunteers that can shake collection tins all through the campus, all day,&#8221; Ms Meredith said of the September 15 appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing do this, donate a prize for the quiz night or sell or buy raffle tickets should contact Ms Meredith on 9266 2118\/0401 103 154 or at <strong>m.meredith@curtin.edu.au<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Australian slow bowler Brad Hogg spins into Curtin to support cricket match helping victims of Pakistan floods disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pakistan-floods-benefit4-1.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 18:51:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}