Blind Cricket Tasmania Launch

We are excited to share our collaborative efforts in continuing to bring new sporting opportunities to the vision impaired community.

On April 24, the first blind cricket ‘Come n Try’ day in Hobart was successfully held, with many participants trying blind cricket for the first time. BSA also welcomed Inclusive Innovations Tasmania (IIT) as a provisional member of its organisation.

Matt Clayton, CEO of Blind Sports Australia (BSA), said “we are excited to welcome IIT as a provisional member and celebrate this dual milestone. It marks two years of hard work by IIT and many sporting and support organisations to establish a state pathway for blind cricket participation through the establishment of Blind Cricket Tasmania, which previously did not exist.”

IIT is an independent, not for profit entity, dedicated to making inclusion mainstream. IIT was established to activate inclusive initiatives, such as Blind Cricket Tasmania, where support sectors do not have the resources to implement them.

[Image taken at ‘Come n Try’ day at the Cricket Hub in Kingston shows Sunny Drury, CEO of IIT and Matt Clayton, CEO of BSA smiling, and shaking hands in front of a certificate. There are cricket nets in the background and two banners advertising Blind Cricket Tasmania and IIT. Felicity Wilkeson and Krista Woodroffe of BSA are also standing in the foreground looking on.]