Eyeway Challenger Cricket Tournament, New Delhi

29 November to 4 December 2011

The inaugural Eyeway Challenger Cricket Tournament for 64 blind school students of Delhi will be held from 29 November to 4 December 2011.

Venue: Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar - IV, New Delhi - 110024

Date and time:

29 November to 2 December, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

2 matches on 3 December, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Final on 4 November 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Click here for match schedule

For Day 1 match details, click here

For Day 2 match details, click here

For Day 3 match details, click here

For Day 4 match details, click here

For Day 5 first match details, click here

For Day 5 second match details, click here

For photos of the opening day, click here

4 December 2011, LIVE UPDATE of today's match

The final match of first Eyeway Blind Cricket Challenger is being played between JPM Senior Secondary School (BRA), Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg and Institution for the Blind, Panchkuian Road. JPM has won the toss and elected to bat.

Panchkuian Road team has won the match by 8 wickets!

The second innings ends with a score of 152 runs for 2 wickets in 12.3 overs.

After 10 overs, the score is 107 for 2 wickets.

After 5 overs, the score is 54 for no loss.

The first innings ends with JPM making 151 runs after losing all wickets in 19.3 overs.

After 10 overs, the score is 65 for 4 wickets. Ankur Dhama and Satyam are the current batsmen.

After 5 overs, the score is 24 for 4 wickets.

This tournament is supported by Coca Cola, Sightsavers, and Reebok.

There are 4 teams participating:

1. Institution for the Blind, Amar Colony, Lajpatnagar
2. Institution for the Blind, Panchkuian Road
3. JPM Senior Secondary School (BRA), Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg
4. Govt Senior Secondary School, Kingsway Camp

The objectives of the event are manifold.

• Provide an advocacy platform– by showcasing the talent of blind children we can establish the fact that it is possible to pursue and achieve your dreams to both a visually impaired and non visually impaired audience and to enable them to see the individual’s ability and not just their disability.
• Share Information- related to career, legal provisions and rights, UNCRPD etc. with the school children (128 blind school children over 4 days)
• Commemorate the "World Disability Day”. To use this as an annual event to commemorate the day.
  
• Promote Eyeway services to the 128 school kids and connect with them, so that they can use Eyeway as their information resource.

We aim to make this an annual event to enable us to have a platform to keep sharing and disseminate information about living life with blindness.

If you want to support this tournament as a vounteer or a donor, please write to scorefoundation@eyeway.org.