Michael Clarke does his bit to help those who lost everything in the bushfires Michael Clarke has helped bushfire victims by supporting a Blue Mountains cricket club. MICHAEL Clarke has put a smile on the faces of some Blue Mountains bushfire victims by donating cricket gear to the Springwood Cricket Club. The Australian captain enlisted the help of his bat sponsor Spartan, who put together two large kitbags. They were handed over before the second day's play of the NSW Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania at Blacktown, just 40km from where fierce fires swept through Springwood and the surrounding districts a fortnight ago. Nine families directly involved with the club lost everything when their homes were destroyed according to vice-president and junior co-ordinator Matt Rogers. "The people who lost everything obviously lost their individual kits but we also had club houses get damaged and coaches who had kits lost them," Rogers said. It wasn't just houses that went. Cars went with stuff in boots. The generosity has been fantastic from the greater cricket community, it's been awesome. Mums and dads ringing up saying we've got some old pads or an old set of spikes, all that sort of thing. Kingsgrove Sports have pledged to help, Kookaburra's been great. The Saturday after the fires went through all local cricket was cancelled by the Penrith-based association. "Our primary focus was to get everyone back on the park last Saturday and now through things like this everyone will have their own gear again," said Rogers. When 193 homes are destroyed and another 100 damaged everyone knows someone who's been affected. There are a lot of displaced people sleeping in spare bedrooms.