Indian Cricket Team for the physically challenged
The Indian Cricket Team for the physically challenged [1] [2][3] represents the country of India in international cricket for the people with physical disabilities. The All India Cricket Association for Physically Challenged takes care of operations of Physically Challenged cricket in India. The team also won the Physical Disability Cricket World Series 2019 held in England.
 Indian national flag | |
| Association | Board of Control for Cricket in India |
|---|---|
| Personnel | |
| T20I captain | Vikrant Keni |
| Coach | Sulakshan Kulkarni |
| Twenty20 Internationals | |
| First T20I | v  |
| Last T20I | v  |
History and today's team
[4] Indian Cricket Team for the physically challenged do not receive as much popular support or recognition as the other team receive. Last year they won a World Disability Series in England [5] [6] (India win the T20 Physical Disability World Series, bin Blackfinch, Worcestershire ). India remained unbeaten throughout the six-nation tournament, including the warm-up games. In the final, they beat hosts England by 36 runs.[7] The team is funded and managed by the "All India Cricket Association for the Physically Challenged", which was founded by former India captain Ajit Wadekar. Late India captain Ajit Wadekar fought with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for 30 long years to get due recognition for the All India Cricket Association for the Physically Challenged (AICAPC).[8] The BCCI,recently awarded them a cash prize of ₹65 lakhs. The selection panel comprises of former Ranji Trophy cricketers Deepak Jadhav, Prasad Desai, Nitin Bhosle, Baba Bhusad and Brijesh Solkar. The team is guided by Karsan Ghavri and Umesh Kulkarni, both of whom have played for the Indian Cricket Team. To be able to represent India, each player needs to show a disability certificate from the Ministry of Health. However, the acceptable level of disability differs from country to country. Cricketers from India and Pakistan need to have at least 40% disability, whereas for England, it is only 15%. As physically challenged cricket allows substitute runners, two players from the team are chosen for this. Some of the leading cricketers from this team are [9] Vikrant Keni, Kunal Phanase, Wasim Iqbal Khan, Tushar Paul, [10] Ravindra Gopinath Sante, Suganesh Mahendaran, Debabrata Roy, Anshul, Ramesh Naidu, Jithendra Vaddi Nagaraju, Mandeep Singh Sran, Gurjant Singh, Gurudas Raut, Anish Rajan, Amir Hassan Rather