Tuan Rushdi

The 6th Dilmah Challenge Trophy National Blind Cricket Tournament is set to begin tomorrow, it has been announced. The tournament, which will run over the course of nearly two months from 3 June-29 July, will see 11 teams taking part in 30 matches across Colombo and Monaragala.  This year’s tournament is being organised by Dilmah, who have been supporting the event since 2005, and the Sri Lanka Cricket Association for the Visually Handicapped (SLCAVH). Together they hope to attract many more novice players to the sport by giving all teams registered with the SLCAVH the chance to compete at a national level, with the tournament’s best players being selected to play for the national side. The teams, which include those from the North as well as Army personnel, will consist of both fully and partially blind cricketers. “It reflects a commitment not only as a business and a family but as a nation, to recognise these gentlemen and to recognise their ability to celebrate what th...

I was so happy to be selected for the Asian chess tournament for the visually challenge 2017. The tournament was an individual tournament and 3 players were selected for the tournament from Sri Lanka. This was the first time I represented my country in an international sports event. The tournament was very tuff. Indian players dominated the tournament, winning the top 5 places. I placed 20 th in the tournament by getting 2 points out of 8 rounds, while my other team members got 1 point each. I had some good wins against higher rated visually challenged players via Skype real time tournaments before we went to India for the Asian Chess tournament, but when it comes to real tournament games the atmosphere is totally different. We last played our national tournament in 2014, since then we didn’t have any tournaments organized for the visually challenged players in Sri Lanka. This was a great experience for me. During the tournament we had 2 workshops in the topic of “How to dev...

Hospitality means helping people feel comfortable in your home. There are limits, of course. You can’t let guests eat all your food or kick you out of your own bed. But other than extremes, you want to be a good host, roommate, or partner. Things get a bit complicated when you’re working with someone who has vision problems. It could be blindness, or it could just be a problem with glare and clarity. But how can you show good hospitality when working with the visually impaired? You make some simple changes, that’s how.  Focus On Colours and Contrasts Making things colourful for people with vision problems might not make sense at first. But remember that not all vision impairments are blindness. Many people can still see — they just have trouble seeing clearly or differentiating between objects. That’s why colour and contrast are two indispensable tools for you. Solid, bright colours are easier to see, so they can make things easier for anyone with a vision problem....