Kolkata, July 12 - Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganuly and Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty along with a host of film and television actors Sunday played a soccer match to raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Aila.

The Vidyasagar stadium at Barasat, 30 km from here, had a packed 25,000 strong crowd as the stars managed to raise Rs.2.5 million for donation to the chief minister's relief fund. State Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty rose to the occasion to announce that his department will provide another Rs.1 million.

Ganguly, whose first love was soccer before he took up cricket seriously, led the television star XI and regaled the crowd with his soccer sense and dribbling, but missed two golden chances by a whisker before finding the net in the tie-breaker.