Blind Cricket – A standard cricket field with a 22-yard pitch, two teams of 11 players each, a game played in a style similar to international cricket.
But when the bowler reached the stumps from his short wicket, he shouted “play on” and bowled with an underhand motion. The ball is touched like a ghungroo (ankle drum) as it bounces about twice before hitting it.
Blind Cricket
Although the first recorded blind cricket game was held in Melbourne in 1922, it was only in 1996 that the World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) – the game’s global governing body – was established.
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Until then, blind cricket was played under independent rules in South Asia, England and Australia.
“After seeing others playing blind cricket, I told my sports coach that I wanted to be a part of it too.”
Since 1998, the WBCC has held four Blind Cricket World Cups and introduced the Twenty20 format with its first Blind T20 World Cup in 2012.
Apart from being a healthy addition to the lives of players across the world, the recognition of blind cricket has done wonders in the lives of those from the rural areas of South Asian countries.
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In Pakistan, the local government awards contracts to 20 or more players, pays for their medical expenses, and in some cases supports their education.
However, for players like Pakistan bowler Israr Hassan, emulating the financial success of the likes of Shahid Afridi or Umar Gul seems years away.
Despite his terrible performance in the last World Cup, he has to manage his family’s corner store in his village to earn money. He is an unknown face on the streets like other players.
The blind cricket team does not vary in the number of players or their roles, but to achieve equality in the game the players are divided into three groups:
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The top batting line must rotate between the three areas before another player reaches that area.
One morning Hassan Khan woke up blind. Neither he nor his family knew it, and didn’t know it for years, but he was suffering from a debilitating illness. Damage to the optic nerve and loss of night vision. He is three years old. Hassan lived with his family in a small village in Pakistan outside Multan. No one knew what to do with a blind boy. Hasan said that I have not done anything. “I can’t do anything.” He didn’t go to school, he didn’t study. “My daily routine is to get up and walk around the shops alone and visit people’s houses. That’s it,” he said.
Hassan learned to listen. He often hears and hears things he shouldn’t. “People used to say to my parents: ‘What will he do when he grows up?’ I used to wonder. I heard people say: ‘Look, if something happens to his parents he’ll be begging on the street.’ But I couldn’t do anything because I didn’t understand what happened. No one did.
Hasan, now 29, is a key member of England’s visually impaired cricket team. They play with a small plastic ball filled with balls. Hassan is an excellent player at short square leg, a job that requires strength, courage and special focus. In blind cricket the bowler has to bounce the ball twice in half of the pitch. Because of this, the sweeper goes low and plays hard. Hasan likes to stay close to get under the batsman’s skin. When he’s not talking, he’s listening and waiting for the ball. As soon as he heard the shot, he tried to stop it. “You have to have the balls to do that,” he said. “He hits the ball so hard that it usually hits me at short square leg.”
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He and the rest of the team have now flown to Adelaide where they will play eight matches against Australia. He had to take annual leave from his job at the Thomas Pocklington Trust charity so he had time to travel and play.
There was still cricket in the background. Both Hassan’s parents are game-crazy. Hassan also had a small bat in his hand before he became blind. After that, he invited his friends to play in his family’s backyard. “I don’t play at all; I just watch and listen to them.” He places a rolled-up newspaper in a hole in the wall, then pretends to be a microphone and comments on their games. “I made a friend from a poor background. He came and they started playing. He said he wanted to go get the bat on his own. He was gone – I knew he wasn’t coming back. Hassan heard that the child had died that very day. “He decided we were richer than him and wanted to play cricket with his friends by the lake. He kicked a ball and it fell and sank. After that I hated the game.
Everything changed when Hasan was nine years old. His younger sister also became blind, at the same age. Hasan’s parents took medical reports sent to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Then they travel to speak with experts there. In 1995, the family moved to London. His father worked as a truck driver. “It’s a war,” Hassan said. Hassan has not studied. Didn’t speak any English. Never seen a white man. “Now I was in a strange land.” He became more selfless. His parents didn’t know what to do with him.
He was later sent to Linden Lodge School for the Visually Impaired in Wimbledon. “One day, I remember it well, a teacher wrote my name in a notebook and said to me: ‘This is your name.’ I took it home and I told my parents: I won’t. Go back. Even if the Queen wants me to go, I won’t come back. I’m staying here to study.’ And that’s when my life started.
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Soon, Hassan turned on the radio on his Walkman and listened to the Test match special. He became a slave. “Instead of playing with the kids at lunch, I’m sitting there listening to this weird game I used to play.” TMS helped me learn English. “But I never tried to pick up a bat because I knew I couldn’t do it. I am blind and cricket is not for the blind.” He was taught by an Australian teacher. “He started playing cricket with us at lunch breaks and after school and I thought: ‘This is amazing.’ It was just friends, no competition.” The boys were told about a nearby club called Metro where blind cricket was played. Four of them went to a meeting. Hassan was also supportive and this was more expected. “I thought: ‘I’ll go, it’ll be like school. A bunch of blind people kicking around the ball screaming their hips off.
What Hassan found instead was a whole new world. “I was 17 years old. These men in the club are in their 40s, 50s, 60s. I am the youngest of 10 and I was very surprised to hear their conversations. They had wives and jobs and lives and I thought: ‘This is amazing. “A cricketer came to pick me up the first week and I said: ‘Whatever happens, I’ll do it alone next week. Anything happens.’ That was actually when I started traveling alone. His family didn’t like it. “I think I know why. They were overprotective. It’s a terrible thought for them. I never went alone. I had two catches in the first game. This, he thought, was ‘crazy’. For a year Later he was invited to train in England.
Hassan says he owes everything to Metro, including his job in England, his education at Birmingham City University, his career and his confidence. “I have reached this position thanks to cricket. I saw people who could live alone and stop doing good deeds, so I felt that I could do it myself. I emulated them. It was not easy for England. He left home after his first lesson. However, he returned in 2006. , however, his friend and mentor Hendrich Swanepoel captained the country.Hassan made his England debut that year against Mr.