So to say, blind people also drive car, draw pictures, and even perform
surgeries.
We ought not to confuse supportive assistance with substitutive, and would
perhaps do well to acknowledge that we may impart our knowledge and information
to such tasks rather than claiming to do them by ourselves.
And, yes, there is a difference between technical support and human support.\
If, for instance, a commentator can possess a hypothetical device relaying all
the visual information in a comprehensive format immediately, and she
commentates based on it, then I may grant the blind commentator has performed
the job.
Regards
"If you believe that there is a God, a God that made your
body, and yet you think that you can do anything with
that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer."
--Lenny Bruce
(Rajesh Asudani)
Assistant General Manager,
Reserve Bank of India
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-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:30 PM
To: Geetha Shamanna; accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
I know of a number of blind people who give sports commentary. Their
description is through the eyes of a sighted friend or help. In a manner of
speaking, the commentary is based on second hand information.
George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geetha Shamanna" <gee...@millernorbert.de>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
Really? How do you gauge the quality of a shot without being able to see it
and without relying on the commentators? By the number of racket hits? If a
player wins a point after a two-minute rally, for example, one cannot assume
that the player who won the point played better tennis during the rally. So
how do you 'observe' the action during such a rally?
In an attempt to prove to the world that blind persons can do just about
everything that sighted people can, we should not delude ourselves that
being blind is the same as being able to see. The sooner we acknowledge this
fact, the richer the quality of our lives will become.
Geetha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Subramani L" <lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
Why not? I have reported on ATP tennis tournaments for newspapers? It's
about observation and not about seeing.
Subramani
-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Ashwani
Jassal
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:10 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
Unbelievable
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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Asudani,
Rajesh
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:23 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
I don't agree.
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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek
aggarwal
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:59 AM
To: accessindia
Subject: [AI] he proved nothing is impossible
folks,
please read below an interesting article about a man who has done
something
incredible.
as we say nothing is impossible, this man has proved it.
have a look to his inspiring story, and try doing something incredible
in
the field that you are in.
i'm highly inspired, hope you too will.
---
Zimbabwe's blind cricket commentator Dean du Plessis bowls audiences for
six
Jan Raath in Harare
Dean du Plessis
It's a rare mix that makes a good cricket commentator: erudite
descriptions
of action, comprehensive knowledge of great players, faultless recall of
statistics, and needle-sharp sense of timing and judgment.
Zimbabwean-born Dean du Plessis, 32, has all these attributes and has
been
delivering commentaries on matches for nine years. But he has never seen
a
game in his life, because his green eyes are glass. He was born blind,
with
tumours on his retinas.
That has been no obstacle to him sharing the commentary box in Tests,
one-day and Twenty20 tournaments involving all the Test-playing nations
in
worldwide radio broadcasts.
He has worked with the likes of Tony Cozier (who pronounced Dean's
delivery
"very smooth"), Geoffrey Boycott ("the nastiest person I have ever
met"),
Ravi Shastri and Australia's former spin bowler Bruce Yardley, who
himself
lost an eye. In 2004 the two became the first team to deliver a
commentary
with a single eye between them.
Mr du Plessis's accentuated sense of hearing makes up for being
sightless.
Wired up to the stump microphones, he can tell who is bowling from the
footfalls and grunts, a medium or fast delivery by the length of time
between the bowler's foot coming down and the impact of the ball on the
pitch.
He picks up
a yorker from the sound of the bat ramming down on the ball, can tell if
a
ball is on the off or on-side, and when it's hit a pad rather than bat.
When
the wicketkeeper's voice goes flat, it tells him a draw is in the
offing.
He can't play the role in the commentary box of the anchor - who
delivers
the ball-by-ball passage, who can see the silently raised finger of the
umpire and the unspoken redeployment of fielders. Mr du Plessis can only
tell from the crowd noise whether a ball has been gathered in a
fielder's
hands, or spilled.
"I have to work with the anchor," he said. "I am the guy who supplies,
well,
the colour."
Last month Bangladesh were playing a gradually improving Zimbabwe when
Mr du
Plessis heard that the visitors' captain had sent a fielder far down to
fine
leg after the Zimbabwe batsman Charles Coventry had smashed a four. "A
sixth
sense told me it was a double bluff," Dean said.
"He wanted to give the impression that the next ball would be a bumper,
to
make Coventry use a hook shot." As he suspected, the next Bangladeshi
ball
was a sneaky yorker.
"The thing about Dean is the intuition," said Andy Pycroft, the
Zimbabwean
opening batsman from 1979 to 2001. "The public love to listen to him. If
he
has the right person at anchor to support him he is brilliant." Mr du
Plessis hated the "blind cricket" he was taught to play with a
plastic-wrapped volleyball at the blind school he attended. One day, 14
and
bored, he tuned the radio in to a station devoted to ball-by-ball
commentaries. It was to change his life:
"There was a phenomenal noise in the background, 80,000 people in a
stadium
in India, people roaring. I realised it was cricket. I was fascinated."
Dean pushed his way into the commentary box at Harare Sports Club in
2001 and was allowed to try out with the microphone. He never looked
back.
---
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