But Ronnie Bhogal is uniting his "biggest passion", cricket, with raising $50,000 for the Otago-Southland Cancer Society.
The money would be donated by the society to Dr Lynnette Jones' Exercise Training Beyond Breast Cancer (Expinkt) programme at the University of Otago.
The oncology exercise programme was for survivors of mainly breast cancer, but also other cancers.
Mr Bhogal, director of Madly British, a Dunedin restaurant, was "hanging out on the boundary" to obtain players' signatures on dinner plates to be auctioned in July.
He had obtained all the first-fielding Black Caps yesterday, but still had a few of the South Africans to track down.
He planned to get the Australian cricket team players' signatures with the help of the McGrath Foundation.
Mr Bhogal shifted to Dunedin after the Christchurch earthquakes destroyed five of his businesses, including his Two Fat Indians restaurant in the Christchurch central business district.
He was also donating some of the proceeds from Madly British towards the $50,000.
Mr Bhogal was inspired to start fundraising by a staff member whose mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Small businesses had a huge potential to fundraise for things benefiting the community, he believed.
When contacted, Dr Jones was touched by Mr Bhogal's efforts and his "incredible energy". Considering he had re-established himself in Dunedin, it was "sensational" he felt able to help a charitable cause to such an extent, she said.
The money would greatly help research into the benefits of the Expinkt programme, as well as help with the programme's running costs, she said.
