VIDARBHA Divyang Cricket Association (VDCA) President Sanjay Bhoskar and former Indian divyang cricket team captain and World Cup winner Gurudas Raut have welcomed Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) decision that asks State units to support cricketers with disabilities. BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia has urged all 38 State associations to support differently-abled cricketers in their respective jurisdictions. In aletter to the associations, titled‘Support Differently-Abled Cricketers’, Saikia wrote: “As deliberated and agreed during the 95th Annual General Meeting of the BCCI held in Mumbai (on September 18, 2026), all the member associations are requested to take appropriate measures towards the welfare, development and betterment of differently-abled cricketers with in their respective jurisdictions.” Saikia also urged the associations to promote participation by providing players with “due encouragement, assistance and opportunities to grow in the game.” Bhoskar lauded the progressive initiative that will make cricket more inclusive.

 

“VDCA believes this support can be agame-changer. Strengthening access to facilities, resources and competitive opportunities for disabled players.Ourmissionis to turn potential into performance, challenges into achievements and sporting dreams into reality —ensuring that no talented cricketer is left behind because of disability,” said Bhoskar. “VDCA is committed in transforming the landscape of differently-abled cricket by identifying talent, creating opportunities and empowering players across everydistrict and taluka of Vidarbha. VDCA strives to build astrong grassroots cricketing network and provide talented athletes with pathways to district, state and national recognition,” he added. Raut welcomed the move and said thatVidarbhaCricket Association (VCA) has always been helping disabled cricketers in every possible way. “For thepast30–40years,cricketers with disabilities havebeen enduring extremely difficult circumstances;Imyselfhaveplayed for thecountrywhile facingsuch conditions. “I take this opportunity to thank Vidarbha Cricket Association and its former President Adwait Manohar who alwayssupporteddivyangcricketers since 2008. Iwelcome this decision of the BCCI who has beensupportingtheDifferentlyAbled Cricket Council of India (DCCI),”said Raut. Ravi Chauhan, General Secretary, DCCI also welcomed themovecallingBCCI’sdecision a“milestone”.