Ian Chappell's cricket book collection auctioned off

Ian Chappell's cricket book collection has sold for Aus $8,000 (US $5,500 approx) at a packed annual charity dinner for the LBW Trust in Sydney. The winning bid for the rich assortment of cricket literature was made by John McMurtrie, managing director of the Link Group financial services company and a onetime graduate of the University of Adelaide, where Chappell grew up.

The bid surpassed an opening bid made by the Cricket Australia chairman David Peever, who expressed his interest in the collection before the dinner, which he could not attend due to his travel to Dubai for the year's first round of ICC meetings.

On a night that also featured Dennis Lillee and Henry Olonga as guests, the charity raised about $250,000 in total for the cause of education in underprivileged parts of the world.