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Mother Teresa’s Gnarled Hands Spur Cricket’s Waugh to Charity

Mother Teresa’s Gnarled Hands Spur Cricket’s Waugh to Charity

by The Daily Eye Team March 26 2014, 1:55 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secs

The tiny hunched frame and gnarled hands of Mother Teresa are etched in former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh’s memory. Eager to see the realities of life in nations such as Steve Waugh’s India and Pakistan his playing days, he met Mother Teresa at her Kolkata mission in 1996.That encounter and her aura of calm sparked an idea that maybe he could emulate her charity work in some small way, Waugh, 48, said in an interview in Sydney. In March 1998, after losing a five-day test match with a day to spare, Waugh visited Udayan, a rehabilitation clinic for children with leprosy or whose parents suffer the disease.

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