A Vision of Victory - Open The Magazine
How India won the Blind World Cup in cricket Earlier this year, the Indian blind cricket team was in turmoil. With the Blind World Cup in South Africa less than nine months away, a tournament India has never won, the Indian team’s most prolific batsman and captain, Shekhar Naik, who had led the te...
Hasnain says:
This is from 2014, but still worth reading.
“A blind cricket match cannot be described as anything else but a vision of incredible human triumph. Bowlers and batsmen have to feel the stumps to orient themselves towards which side to bat or bowl. Yet a batsman, crouched low to the ground to better hear the rattling sound of the ball, hits a ball he cannot see, basing his stroke completely on the noise the ball makes. Fielders dive full-length to stop balls, and then, instead of throwing the ball, run to the bowlers’ end to feel for the bowler’s hand to pass the ball to.”
Posted on 2021-12-20T22:45:07+0000