Ramesh - The Motivational Cricketer

Almost every Indian guy is crazy about cricket and Ramesh is no exception to that. He was 7 years old when he started practicing in Po0namalle School. Like most of the parents, Ramesh’s family was not along his interest. So, he decided to play without their knowledge and he has been passionately playing for 13 years now. There was not even proper coach and he managed to practice on his own. All that toiling and perseverance made him a part of Indian Blind cricket team in 2003 and he is the “Only player from Tamil Nadu” to represent team India among roughly 150 players.

Blind cricket has three categories namely B1 (100% Blind), B2 (40% Blind), B3 (70% Sight). Ramesh belongs to B3 category and he is an all rounder. So far he has played 2 World cups and test matches representing India. In 2009, he was a part of the team that represented India against Pakistan in England. In world cup 2014 held in South Africa, Ramesh was awarded “Best World fielder”.  

But the sad truth is that there is no proper recognition given to blind cricket unlike the normal one. When Indian Cricket team plays abroad we get so interested to follow the game very closely. But we do not even have any clue when these Indian Blind Cricket matches happened.  This really makes me wonder if we are really being partial between the same game. Does this mean we are rather addicted to the team themselves rather to the Game?

It saddened me further when Ravikant of Lit the Light mentioned that “media was not interested to cover the match and it was only 1 channel that telecasted it and we took a screen shot of  the score every 1 hour and posted in Facebook.” And another heart breaking fact is that these players are not paid for any of their matches.

Apart from cricket, Ramesh is pursuing his Bachelors in History through Correspondence studies simultaneously working as a Clerk in NLC, Neyveli.

People like Ramesh are a ray of inspiration to us. I personally wish him good luck to get the appropriate recognition for his passion and hard work and also on behalf of lit the light to reach greater heights further.  

Article by Sree Mahalakshmi