For the Sunday morning journey to Bowling Old Lane Cricket Club to watch Bradford & District Visually Impaired Cricket Club (Bradford VICC) play Yorkshire Vikings, I took a taxi. Fairly rare but I had heavy camera equipment, a dodgy hip and didn’t fancy the half-hour uphill climb on foot. It allowed for an entertaining chat […]
Visually Impaired Cricket
Yorkshire players make the England women’s squad for British Blind Games
There is a strong Yorkshire contingent who have been selected in the England Women’s Blind squad for the upcoming 2023 IBSA World Blind Games in Birmingham. The IBSA World Games is the world’s largest sporting event for those athletes who are blind and partially sighted. This is the first time the Games come to the […]
Andy’s story: Playing visually impaired cricket for Yorkshire
Visually impaired cricketer Andy Fisher remembers the moment his eyesight changed. ‘I woke up with my eyesight all massively blurry. I went for tests and they thought it could be a brain tumour or a stroke.’ Andy was 35 at the time he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic condition called Leber Hereditary Optic […]
How did Yorkshire’s visually impaired cricketers do in 2019?
Captain John Garbett (above) reflects on a promising season for Yorkshire’s visually impaired county squads as well as updating us on coaching and community work. Over to John! *** Winter training went very well both on & off the field, with more members signing up and a new kit with a shirt sponsor for the […]
Going in to bat for Yorkshire visually impaired cricket
What must it be like to play cricket if you’re visually impaired? It was a thought preoccupying me on the walk up to the Indoor Cricket Centre at Yorkshire County Cricket Club to watch a taster session run by Yorkshire VICC. I’ve written about VI cricket before with Cricket Yorkshire but it has been a […]