After witnessing several IPl matches, denizens of state capital will soon witness T20 cricket tournament of the disabled persons. The initiative has been taken by Disable Sports Evem Jan Utthan Samiti to encourage the physically disabled. The match will be played at state capital from June 4 to June 6.
The three day tournament for the disabled will be held at Birsa Munda Football Stadium, Morhabadi.
legal & Media Advisor of the organization Pranav Kumar Babbu said, “Around 300 players will participate in the tournament. The main aim of the Samiti is to enhance physical mobility of such physically disabled persons through cricket and integrate them into the mainstream game.”
He said, “The stadium is provided by the state sports department seeing the interest of disables towards sports. We talked to various political parties and government bodies for the support of such an initiative.”
“In all ten teams are participating from the various districts of Jharkhand in the tournament. Eight teams have already registered for the tournament two are yet to register,” said Mukesh Kanchan National Disable player and Secretary of the Samiti in press conference on Friday.
While talking about the players, Kanchan mentioned, “The team will arrive on June 3 and will stay at premises of football stadium. The players coming under the orthopedic handicapped and having 40 per cent or more than 40 per cent disability, can only participates in the tournament.”
The tournament is sponsored with the collaboration of Idea and Total lubricants and is spending around Rs 3, 25,000 to organize the match.
The match will be played with the swing ball, lighter than the duez ball and it will be played on knock out basis.
Samiti has announced cash prizes of Rs 25,000 and a trophy to the winner and Rs15,000 to the runner-up team.
The eight participating teams are from Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Koderma, Sahebganj, Deoghar, Ramgarh, Gumla and Ranchi. There is probability of two more teams participate in tournament from Khunti and Hazaribagh.