The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) secretary Richard Gould has written to his counterpart, BCCI secretary Jay Shah, proposing to convey two nationwide incapacity groups — one for visually impaired (blind) and one mixed (bodily challenged, intellectually challenged and listening to impaired) crew — to assist popularise the game among the many communities. Presently, in India, there’s a In another way Abled Cricket Council of India (DCCI), which is a sub-committee of the BCCI however the Indian board independently does not organise any tournaments.
There will likely be some discussions on the sidelines of the ICC Annual convention in Colombo the place Gould is meant to take part within the Chief Executives Meet.
“We suggest boards function two worldwide groups — a blind XI as a standalone format after which a pan-disability format with squads consisting of deaf, intellectually impaired and bodily disabled cricketers. We might be eager and keen to host the inaugural pan-disability event involving our 5 nations in 2025. The ICC are eager to point out collective help for this strategy to make sure any steps are member pushed,” Gould wrote in a letter, additionally addressed to Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley, PCB COO Salman Naseer, and CSA CEO Phletsi Moseki. A replica of the letter is with PTI.
Actually, Gould has addressed that the “world incapacity cricket is unstructured, unregulated and sometimes unsupported”.
“There are numerous totally different codes of incapacity cricket — blind, deaf, mental impairment and bodily incapacity and there was widespread lack of co-ordination and technique that sits throughout all 4.
“This has not been an space of sport we’ve collectively prioritised and though monetary restraints are felt as prevalently now as ever, now could be the time for us to come back collectively to turbocharge the incapacity recreation,” Gould additional wrote.
Presently there are 1.3 billion (130 crore) folks with numerous disabilities dwelling globally and Gould believes that it’s an untapped market that must be reached.
It’s learnt that Ravi Chauhan, the boss of DCCI, will likely be in Sri Lanka to participate in discussions as he has been the bridge between his committee and BCCI.
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