Blind and vision-impaired cricketers in Canberra now have a team in the National Cricket Inclusion Championships, taking in players from Tasmania to make up numbers.
abc.net.au/news/act-vision-impaired-cricketers-team-up-with-tasmanian-players/101992392When Clifton Plummer donned his cricket kit and took the field last week, it was the first time he'd played in five years.Despite playing representative cricket for Queensland and then Australia, a move to Canberra meant Plummer's talents took a back seat.
"[It was] challenging, I did miss the game … there was just no social aspect, if there's no social sport." That's when Toby was introduced to blind cricket, only a year before he made his debut in the inaugural team. President of Blind Cricket ACT, Jason Schmidt, had been the backbone of the team's campaign for five years.
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