Yorkshire's Headingley Carnegie Stadium was the setting for the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match on Friday 8 June 2007. The IIFA celebrity team, which combined Asia's cricketing greats with A-list stars from the Indian film fraternity, played against a UK celebrity team. Proceeds were donated to the IIFA Foundation.

Acting legend and IIFA Brand Ambassador, Amitabh Bachchan, inaugurated the match, before being joined by superstars Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty for the toss of coin. Jest-filled commentary provided by actors Chunky Pandey and Boman Irani, with special commentary by Preity Zinta and Urmila Matondkar, marked the proceedings.

Captained by sultry pin-up boy Saif Ali Khan, the IIFA celebrity team boasted the cricketing prowess and power of cricket legend Kapil Dev, Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Rakyesh Mehra, Shaan, Emran Hashmi, Sohail Khan, Dino Morea, Fardeen Khan, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Aftab Sivdasani, Tushar Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Hrithik Roshan, Chunky Pandey, Abhishek Bachchan, Kunal Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Suneil Shetty, Riteish Deshmukh, Anil Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan.

The Yorkshire XI comprised Phil de Freitas, Gladstone Small, Devon Malcolm, Jay Sean, Robin Smith, Mark Chapman, Nick Hancock, MPs Ed Balls and Shahid Mallik among other celebrities.