MELBOURNE: Shane Warne has committed that his charitable foundation will pay dollars 20,000 to Sri Lanka's Galle Club for its reconstruction efforts at the cricket ground devastated by tsunami in 2004.
Warne announced more than $500,000 in donations to four Australian children's charities on Tuesday, the second anniversary of tsunami, and promised that he would also pay to the Lankan Club.
"I can say we're giving the Sri Lankan Cricket Club $20,000 today, which goes towards helping build some cricket grounds," he was quoted as saying by the 'Sydney Morning Herald' on Thursday.
Warne was threatened of legal action by Club Director Jayananda Warnaweera after his Charitable Trust had failed to deliver a promised $50,000 for repair of the ground, where the spinner took his 500th Test wicket in March 2004.
Warne's foundation had promised in an email that their fund-raisers would net $50,000 for the reconstruction of the ground but later said that "unfortunately" the cost of the promotion was greater than the amount collected and there would be no money forthcoming.
