CABI on Monday introduced that it is going to be sending its males’s and girls’s groups for the IBSA World Games, scheduled to start in Birmingham on August 19.
Cricket is making an entry into the quadrennial International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games this 12 months and CABI hopes the success of its groups within the world occasion will take blind cricket to nice heights.
“The BCCI had asked us to constitute the DCCI (Differently Abled Cricket Council of India) which we did. But we are not getting financial support from the BCCI, though we have their moral support and assist us by arranging venues for our matches,” mentioned GK Mahantesh, the CABI chairman at a press convention on Monday, which was additionally attended by former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif.
“Our cricketers have won three T20 World Cups and two ODI World Cup and we had received assurances from the sports minister about more support following our title triumph in the 2022 T20 Blind World Cup at Bengaluru, but nothing has happened so far,” lamented Mahantesh.
The Indian males’s staff, led by Ajay Kumar Reddy, will play its first match within the IBSA World Games towards arch-rivals Pakistan on August 20 within the five-team contest. The different competing groups within the males’s part are Australia, England and Bangladesh.
The last will probably be performed at Edgbaston on August 26.
The India ladies’s staff, led by Varsha, will play its first match towards Australia on August 20. There are solely three groups within the fray and the ultimate will probably be performed in Edgbaston on August 26.
Both the lads’s and girls’s groups are coaching in Bengaluru.
Besides cricket, the IBSA World Games will maintain competitions in judo, goalball, soccer, chess, tenpin bowling, taking pictures, showdown, archery and tennis.
Indian Blind Association Association common secretary David Absalom added that plans have been afoot to deliver the subsequent version of the IBSA World Games to India.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com