Dear friends. I think instead of calling it blind cricket we may use the term cricket for the blind or of the blind.
Amities. Suhas Karnik. > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:40:56 -0700 > From: rambabu_...@yahoo.com > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Sports, news, fashion and entertainment. Pick it all up in a package called MSN India http://in.msn.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
