Khangura gives a send off to Deaf and Dumb cricketers - 28/09/2009
LUDHIANA, September 28: The hearing and speech impaired cricketers from Punjab would be playing four matches in Singapore and Malaysia in a specially organized tournament. The 15 member team along with four officials would be leaving for Singapore on September 30 and would return on October 8. The tour is being organized by the Deaf Cricketer Federation Punjab (Regd).Addressing a press conference here today the members of the federation along with the Qila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura said, it was for the first time that the hearing and speech impaired cricketers were participating in a transnational event.
The team will play four matches against the Lankan Lions Cricket club, two each in Singapore and Malaysia.
The players have been drawn from different parts of the state. The Punjab Deaf Cricketers’ Federation has been providing all the training and logistic support to the players.
The federation chairman Rajesh Gupta and president Sanjeev Kumar expressed their gratitude to Jassi Khangura for his moral and financial support to encourage the deaf and dumb cricketers to participate in an event in Singapore and Malaysia. Such measures, they said, would encourage these players who otherwise feel ignored and marginalized.
Khangura has donated Rs one lakh to the federation for this tour.
Speaking on the occasion Khangura maintained that it was the moral responsibility of everyone to encourage such people particularly with special talents. He hoped that the federation will provide maximum chance to the deserving players who cannot speak or hear.