Blind and vision-impaired cricketers in Canberra can now play the game they love thanks to the National Cricket Inclusion Championships

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 When Clifton Plummer donned his cricket kit and took the field last week, it was the first time he'd played in five years.

Not because he didn't want to, but because there wasn't a team for him to join.

Despite playing representative cricket for Queensland and then Australia, a move to Canberra meant Plummer's talents took a back seat.

Plummer has a hereditary vision impairment called congenital retinoschisis, where the eye's retina peels off and destroys itself, meaning he has no vision in one eye and is legally blind in the other.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-18/act-vision-impaired-cricketers-team-up-with-tasmanian-players/101992392




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