Great memories! I still remember how everyone wanted to touch Kapil Dev. It was with great difficulty that I managed to get him out.
Regards, George ----- Original Message ----- From: "rambabu adikesavalu" <rambabu_...@yahoo.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:10 PM Subject: [AI] ect:re: Indian Blind Cricket League- The First Call Dear George Sir, Its a great news indeed!! I still cherish the fond memories of the first national cricket tournament for the Blind which you had organised in december 1990. I am one of the proud participants of that tournament in which I represented St. Louis Institute for the Deaf and the Blind, Chennai. It was titled as the Tata Steel Challenge tournament which was won by NIVH, Dehra Dun. The Late Mr. Madhav Rao Sindia inaugurated the tournament. The most important highlight of the inaugural ceremony was the great Kapil Dev who was one of the chief guests could not make it due to some reasons. We were disappointed very much. However, soon after we reached our rooms, there was call from the organisers asking all of us to assemble again. Yes! this time there was a surprise awaiting for us. Kapil Dev had arrived by then. He spent sometime with us. Apart from the tournament we enjoyed every moment of our stay because of your wonderful organising skills. In the finals, NIVH defeated BMA, Ahmedabad. Of course, BMA has later been renamed as BPA,.] The Late Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the chief guest for the finals and he gave away the prizes. Anand Sharma of NIVH was the Man of the Tournament. In fact, some of the best players of that tournament and the subsequent ones remained as our favourite heroes. I remember some of those names: Kamal Patel, Vasant Patel, Anand Sharma, Vima Narayana, Mahesh, Harikrishnan, and so on. Well, these are some of my contemporary players. I had participated in the first three national championships held in New Delhi, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Of course, Blind Cricket has improved a lot and has brought in a number of laurals for our country in the last ten years. I am sure that this new initiative you are taking would give more champions among us. I wish you all the best! Regards, Dr. A.Rambabu, Assistant Professor, (CSSEIP), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Phone: 09969747312. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
