Blind Cricket World Cup 2022 – India’s national blind cricket team created history by winning the T20 Blind World Cup for the third time in a row. They beat Bangladesh by 120 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Indian captain Ajay Kumar Reddy elected to bat after winning the toss and his team eventually scored 277 runs for Bangladesh. The best actor award was given to Sunil Ramesh.
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As India were bundled out for 277 in the allotted 20 overs, Sunil Ramesh and captain Ajay Kumar Reddy were among them to blast magnificent tons. Bangladesh team managed to score only 157 from three overs.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the Indian team on winning the third Blind T20 World Cup via Twitter.
Congratulating the Indian team, Prime Minister Modi tweeted, “India is proud of our players. We are happy to have won the T-20 World Cup for the visually impaired. We congratulate our team and wish them all the best for their future.”
India is proud of our players. We are happy to have won the T-20 World Cup for the Blind. We congratulate our team and wish them success in their future activities. https://t.co/W3eQMo3LRn — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 17, 2022
Sunil Ramesh won the Man of the Match award in the championship. He was awarded the B3 Man of the Year award. The tournament winner and unbeaten Indian team won Rs. 3 lakh as prize money, Bangladesh finished second and won Rs. 1.5 million.
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Ajay won the Man of the Series award in the B2 category. Mohammad Mahmoud Rashid from Bangladesh won the “Man of the Series” award in the B1 category. When they decided to bat, India got off to a bad start. Salman dismissed vice-captain D Venkateswara in the fourth over and then removed Lalit Meena’s stumps. 2012 and 2017 respectively.
India beat Bangladesh in the final match of the T20 Blind World Cup on Saturday. They registered their third tournament title. In the match, India defeated their opponent by an average of 120 runs.
Captain Ajay Kumar Reddy and Sunil Ramesh led India to victory with a brilliant knock. While Ramesh hit 136 off 63 balls with 24 boundaries and a six, Reddy hit 100 off 50 balls.
The duo put on an unbeaten stand of 248 runs and set a target of 278 runs after opting to bat for the third wicket.
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Chasing the target, Bangladesh could only manage 157/3 in 20 overs. Salman has scored 77 goals in the Bangladesh national team.
India, who remained unbeaten in the tournament, bagged Rs 3 lakh for the title, while Bangladesh got Rs 1 crore.
India got another blow in the same manner as Salman caught Lalit Meena to reduce India to 29/2.
Read all Breaking News Live and get the latest English news and updates from Sports & Cricket Section T20 Blind World Cup: Suvendu Mahata hopes to break the ‘blind cricketer’ stigma. In 2001, it left him completely blind at the age of five. With an international appearance in the World Cup, the Bengal all-rounder hopes to change his mind.
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“The tone is sometimes the most painful because it can be condescending, although the truth is that I don’t see very well,” he said. It’s too bad when other people hear that I’m a blind cricketer; blind playing cricket is unpleasant for them.
That’s the sentiment 25-year-old Mahata hopes to take out of the T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind, which begins on Tuesday, as the world’s first game, at least the world tournament on home soil, is imminent. An all-rounder in Bengal’s blind national cricket team since 2014, he is part of the Indian team that will compete in the seven-team T20 World Cup.
Mahanta says, “Many blind people make fun of the police and other taunts, and blind cricketers are no different. “Here, a big platform like the World Cup can help start a change in perception. You see athletes representing the country and fighting for world supremacy, so you also see the visually impaired. “
Reigning champions and two-time champions in the format, India will once again face Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa and Nepal in the 24-match T20 World Cup. The tournament will be held from December 5 to 17 in Faridabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Indore and Bengaluru, with each side playing the other team once.
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“The opportunity to represent India can be great. At that time, there were few such personnel in the domestic world championship. It would be a dream come true for me,” said Mahata. “I would like to be in the playing XI especially against Pakistan as they are our strongest opponents.”
Mahata is one of five B1 (totally blind) players in India’s 17-man squad and one of 10 players in their first World Cup. A self-confident ‘malicious cricketer’, he is a right-arm medium bowler and bowls at medium pace for change.
“My love for the game is such that I am usually the first to enter the cricket field and the last to leave because I love the game so much,” he said. It helped me find a new purpose in life; it makes me happy.”
Born blind, Mahata had his first cricket brush before a shocking accident left him blind in 2001 at the age of five. A routine ride in Kaima village in West Bengal’s Jhargram district turned life upside down when a teenage cyclist lost control and a car slammed into his face, knocking out four of his front teeth.
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Unbeknownst to Mahata, the vision in his right eye began to deteriorate shortly thereafter. By the time he reached the second stage of his schooling, he would also be blind in his left eye. Several attempts at self-surgery failed and he was left with no choice but to accept his new world of total darkness.
“Ask anyone who has gone from partial blindness, partial vision, or partial vision to total blindness, and they’ll say the same thing: it’s not easy, and they wish it hadn’t happened to them,” notes Mahata. “But if it happens, you can’t give up. Fortunately, I found cricket and people to push me to the limit.”
He attributes much of his work to Sumit Kumar Bagh, a physical education teacher at the school for the blind, where he enrolled two years after the accident. Bag, Mahata says, encouraged him to study the game in unconventional cricket, where the international game has several differences compared to conventional cricket.
Blind cricketers, for example, bowl the underarm backhand and heavy hitters who rely on the sweep stroke due to their high bat area for contact. The ball is usually made of plastic and filled with metal bearings so that bowlers and fielders feel the crack.
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“The cricket I started watching as a child is not the same as the cricket I play now, but both are cricket,” Mahata said with a smile. “There’s beauty in that kind of diversity that more people know about blind cricket.”
Among the four slots reserved for B1 players, one of the leading players in the starting XI — each blind international team must have three B2 category (partially blind, with vision up to two to three meters) and four B3 cricketers. bracket (party sighted) – Mahata impressed many with his performance in the training camp.
I first saw him in the expanded 29-man squad in Bhopal in September and October, then he was included in the final 17-man squad that took part in the Bengaluru camp before moving to Delhi. In every camp, Suvendu’s fitness stood out,” said Asif Basha S, coach of India’s blind cricket team.
“His strength as a B1 player is very good, as is his game at short third position. His confidence caught the eye of me and the Cricket Association’s blind selection committee. He is very hardworking and never gives less than 100 per cent.”
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Mahata attributes his work ethic and love for the game in part to his elder brother, Sachin Tendulkar, who is also visually impaired and is a cricketer and former Indian captain. Mahata recalls that he would follow much of the hit legend’s history, mostly through angry comments on television.
Meeting Tendulkar “will be a great experience one day,” he said. Meanwhile, Mahata is excited to have one of Tendulkar’s former teammates and World Cup winner put his weight behind the third.
