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CRICKET TASTER SESSION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

So you thought cricket wasn’t for you because you are blind or partially sighted….. or your playing days were cut short for that very same reason.

WELL THINK AGAIN

Selby Leisure Services are trying to identify if there is a need in the Selby and York area to develop Visually Impaired Cricket.

WHAT IS VISUALLY IMPAIRED CRICKET?

The main difference between standard Cricket and Blind Cricket is the ball. A size three football is used in UK Blind Cricket to help the partially sighted players to see it and it is filled with a quantity of ball bearings to allow the totally blind players to hear it. The MCC Laws of Cricket have also been adapted in other ways in an attempt to allow blind and partially sighted people to compete on equal terms.

INTRESTED? LET US KNOW

By contacting:

James Chapman (Sport & Physical Activity Inclusion Officer) at Abbey Leisure Centre Tel: 01757 213758 Mob: 07958145762 or inclusionofficer@selbyleisure.co.uk

2009-05-07