Wheelchairs for Madhya Pradesh's special cricket team a big boost for players

INDORE: Preparing for national wheelchair cricket tournament to be organized in Indore on December 1, the state-level team on Monday received a major support after the district administration, with help of local donors, distributed sport wheelchairs to the players with physical-disabilities as a prominent tool to help them play well.
"Today, we are very happy to get a sports wheelchair as without it, we were unable to compete with the teams of other states and were worried, as if, we won't even qualify for the national competition" Shahzad Ali, captain of MP Wheelchair Cricket Disabled Sports Association, said.Other players including Golu Choudhary, Altaf Hussain, Arif, Ajay, Kamal and Krishnapal said that the sport wheelchair will be very helpful for them as it moves very easily.
"In the ground, it was very difficult to do fielding, bowling, battling and especially running using a normal wheelchair while the players also used to get hurt from it" the coach Hasan Khan said, adding that sport wheelchairs are expected to solve all these aforesaid problems.
"It was after collector Manish Singh came to know about the players not having comfortable wheelchairs to play cricket, he started making efforts and initially provided sport wheelchairs to at least four teammates" the social justice department's JD Suchita Tirkey Beck said. Today, remaining out of total 15 players of MP Cricket Team of disabled players were donated sport wheelchairs, costing around Rs 5 lakh, by one Vishal Dubey of In Sight Mall (Phoenix), she added. MP Shankar Lalwani said, "The disabled cricket players of Indore and adjoining districts has the courage to measure to win the title of national winner with their zeal and passion, but they did not have wings (facilities), which the district administration and the donors resolved by providing them comfortable (sports) wheelchairs and allowing to use ITI's playground for practice".