The 3rd National Wheelchair Cricket Championship will be played in Udaipur . The tournament will be the third in three years and will be the first in the world .
Udaipur (Rajasthan) India, November 23: The Royals Sports Group-owned Rajasthan Royals, along with the Differently Abled Cricket Council of India (DCCI) and the Wheelchair Cricket India Association (WCIA), in partnership with the Narayan Seva Sansthan of Udaipur, announced the launch of the 3rd National Wheelchair Cricket Championship on Wednesday.The tournament, which is now in its third season, will be played in Ud These 16 teams will be broken into four groups, with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals and the eventual winners facing off in the final.Teams that make it to the lastfour will have the opportunity to win a cash prize, with the winner earning Rs2.50 lakhs along with a rolling trophy, while the runners-up will earn Rs1.50 lakhs.According to a DCCI press release, the remaining two semi-finalists who do not make it to the final will also be given Rs50,000 in prize money.
We aim at the Royals to bring together people in cricket, and with this extension of support to the competition, we aim to extend the cricketing community for these players, enabling them to flourish through the sport and contribute to the society, according to Ravikant Chauhan, a member of the BCCIs Differently Abled Cricket Committee.More than 100 cricket experts and officials will be arriving in Udaipur to help make this Divyang Cricket Khel Kumbh a success.With the participation of such a large number of Wheelchair Cricketers, this event would also be the Worlds Biggest Wheelchair Sports Event (Single Discipline i.e.Cricket) at one venue (Udaipur), and it would be the Worlds Biggest Wheelchair Sports Event (Single Discipline i.e.