BCCI turns blind eye to blind cricket
Refused support by the BCCI, the cash-strapped Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI) has approached Rahul Dravid to help raise funds for sustaining itself.
“The BCCI says that blind cricket is not cricket. When Jagmohan Dalmiya was the chairman, he at least used to take our phone calls but the present setup does not even respond to our letters,”
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