a bit of vision

sign, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

 

Cricket does not exist in Germany, as such. Not at all. Is like playing handball in india. Both absurd. Maybe not everywhere. what I am aware of.

In india cricket it is a huge thing. Everything turns around cricket. Children are playing it on the street, elder watching every game, on the radio, television, life. Like football in Germany, without all the screaming and singing.

gate keeper, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

board, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

Sport depends always on seeing. To see the ball the players, the edges of a game field. It is fast and you need to be alert, quick.

The rules of a blind cricket are: 3 partial blind up to 40 %, 4 player blind, and 3-player partial blind 60 %. The ball has some bells in them, which are ringing, the ball is thrown on the floor and that’s it. Everything is like cricket as usual.

outside, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

The association for the blind is not just for the blinds. It is a house for a lot of things, women hostel, disability, homeless kids, job seeker, and school. They have about 10 different programs for individual funding. 7 houses alone in Bangalore and a lot of them more spread out all over the country.

Ngos and there funding have to be flexible. Addressing a lot of issue to get always money. this is what I know from Bangladesh. Due to fashion in handing out funding you need to cover a lot of different areas. To cover the rest in the meantime.

chair, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

corner, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

chess, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

The owner of the association is blind. He grew up blind. The start of the association was his love for blind cricket. Cricket is my life he says.

He used to listen to radio, his friends changed the game for him. So he could play as well. That’s why he founded it and because it s good. a lot of reasons.

He is a visionary, another one. somebody who does not think ideas are too big, too scary, not practical transferable.

eating, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

food, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

traces, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012

Most ideas fall down because people think they are too big, not practical, and not seen in our reality.

I am wondering always how many people had a vision, a perfect idea, but lived in the wrong time and place and simple got overheard and their ideas, for a least the moment, forgotten.

magazine, blind cricket association, bangalore, april 2012