And the 29-year-old - who along with his team-mates visited a school in Goodna, on the outskirts of the Queensland capital, on Friday - said he hopes the match will further raise publicity for the relief effort.
Bopara is the role-model for the next generation - a boy who scrambled 10 team-mates together from his inner London state school to enter a Capital Kids competition run by the Lord's Taverners, which they won.