The Australasian Supplement

The Australasian Supplement. Letter to the Editor. Page 6
First documented record of blind cricket being played, letter written by I.WARREN BALL. Requesting a 'kind invention' for a ball which would not injure the players - as the one they had made was a tin can beaten into the shape of an oval, with rocks inside. Subsequently, a cane wicker ball was devised, and blind cricket thrived in Victoria, with first interstate game held between Victoria and South Australia in 1926. Today Blind Cricket is an international sport.
Courtesy National Library of Australia

Citation:
1877, The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), 26 May, p. 6.
(THE AUSTRALASIAN SUPPLEMENT)
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