A delegation of wheelchair cricketers and activists for the differently abled cause met the governor of Maharashtra recently. They exhorted the governor to order colleges to make available their grounds for wheelchair cricketers to practise. A report in this paper cited how wheelchair cricketers are finding it extremely challenging to get grounds for practice and play. In fact, this problem affects not just cricketers but wheelchair players in other sport too. Administrators and owners often tell them that the wheelchairs are damaging the ground/pitch and shut the space for these feisty players.

The governor is the chancellor of all state universities and hence the wheelchair delegation was at the Raj Bhavan to press that it would be of huge help if they have access to grounds. Even as you read this, Sri Lanka’s wheelchair cricket team is in India to play a five-match T-20 series against the Indian team wheelchair cricketers. The series will be played in Greater Noida.