Piers Morgan donates £1,000 to fly newlywed Peter Melhuish by helicopter from Welsh wedding to Lord's final

Piers Morgan's £1,000 donation helped Blackheath Cricket Club smash their £6,000 helicopter fundraiser target, sparing captain Peter Melhuish a 5am taxi after his Welsh wedding.

Melhuish, 32, has played for Blackheath Cricket Club since the age of six, making the Lord's final a lifelong ambition he nearly had to sacrifice for his own wedding.

Peter Melhuish, captain of Blackheath Cricket Club in Guildford, faces the ultimate scheduling clash: his wedding to Izzy Upton in North Wales falls the day before his team's Cawston Press Village Cup final at Lord's on 6 September. Blackheath launched a fundraiser to fly him by helicopter from the ceremony to the ground, and have smashed their £4,500 target, raising over £6,000. Piers Morgan's £1,000 donation helped push them over the line.

Melhuish, 32, has played for Blackheath since the age of six, making the Lord's final a lifelong ambition he nearly had to choose between and his own wedding.

The only alternative was a 5am taxi dash; the helicopter cuts the journey to around 90 minutes, landing him at Lord's by 10am for a 10:30am start.

His club said 'vanishingly few are UN-lucky enough to have both dreams happen within 24 hours of each other.'

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