The Ashes Cricket Event - September 2005

TOP BRITISH PAINTER Sacha Jafri PAINTS OFFICIAL ASHES WINNING VICTORY PAINTING AT NATWEST PCA AWARDS AND RAISES 35,000 POUNDS

Imagine owning the handprint from those hands that bowled, batted, caught, wicket kept and stumped their way to the Ashes Victory. Sacha Jafri created just that last night at the Natwest PCA awards at the Royal Albert Hall. Creating the official Victory Painting around the handprints and signatures of the winning team, Sacha produced a piece of historic sporting memorabilia to commemorate a win that will be remembered for generations.

The England team, including Player-Of-The-Year Freddie Flintoff, all entered into the spirit of things getting their hands dirty once again in the name of cricket and placing their hands first in paint and, under Sacha’s instruction, then positioning them on his canvas.

Painting in the dressing room with live links to the 5,000 strong audience having dinner, Sacha had only four hours to complete the masterpiece. At 9:30pm the colourful masterpiece was brought out on to the stage as the final and star auction prize. The bidding was fast and furious for those keen to get their hands on such a unique piece and was eventually sold by auctioneer John Gould for 35,000 pounds and saw Sacha as the highest contributor to the auction. This adds to Sacha’s impressive tally who has raised over 1.4million pounds for charity in the past 5 years.

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