Going in to bat for deaf cricketers

Going in to bat for deaf cricketers

The New Zealand cricket team beat Australia at the Petone Recreation Ground. You would be forgiven for not knowing the match was on. Media coverage, or rather the lack of it, is a major problem for disabled sport.

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Adrian Griffiths

Grant Billing

Karl Chapple

Martin Holtham

Michael May

Taonga source:

The Dominion

Reference number:

SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1997-006

Bibliographic source:

The Dominion, 1 February 1997, p.19

Author:

Kathy Graham

Copyright status:

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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