Indian Blind Cricket team needs recognition: President CABI
“It’s very inspiring for us to visit in such a national level event ‘Prerna’ exclusively organised for the physically disable people. The MSU is organising such an event for the last one decade is commendable as they give platform to such people and main streaming them through variety of programmes,” said Mahantesh G.K. President , […]
“It’s very inspiring for us to visit in such a national level event ‘Prerna’ exclusively organised for the physically disable people. The MSU is organising such an event for the last one decade is commendable as they give platform to such people and main streaming them through variety of programmes,” said Mahantesh G.K. President , Cricket Association for the Blind in India. The Indian blind cricket team members visit Vadodara in the event to play a match against the local team.
They also said that recently the things changes a little bit but not up to the expectations they want. “The blind cricketers recently started to get recognition and cash rewards but not to the expectations of the players. The BCCI and government should come forward to recognise and appreciate their efforts and give cash awards and sponsorships. They also need affiliation at the world level also like the other countries. The regular funding is also not there and every time they have to approach the concern authorities which is very embarrassing for them,” said Mahantesh.
For the future plans they said to come up with various plans like to start women cricket and organising grass root level cricket tournaments. “We are in the process to start women cricket from blind and already undertaking the project in the states like Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand, MP, Karnataka, TN and Kerala. To develop the cricket we are planning to start tournaments at grass root level in schools and district associations. We also soon are going to start a cricket academy for the blind cricketers in next two years and plan to make the stadium as disable friendly,” said Mahantesh hoping for the situations to improve for the blind Indian cricketers.