This is the Friends of History, Debating Society. I'm John Batsu with Jeremy Zakis at New South

Way of Sydney. And it's cricket season. And the national team was tied by the National

English team in ashes, and both teams were demoted. And there are clubs and cricket going

on around the world now. There'll be a championship later. But there's also cricket played by people

who are legally blind. Jeremy, this is a marvel. I admire it. Great deal. How does it work?

What are the rules? Well, the rules, John, are actually very similar to normal cricket.

In fact, if the ball hits the wicket, you're out. If the ball is caught, you're also out.

And if you manage to basically get the ball to hit the wicket before the batter can run

to the other end or make it inside that white line, the Chris, they're also out. They

have six balls per over. Everything's the same. But the difference is, John, that some

of the techniques are a little bit different because you're dealing with visually impaired

people who can't see the ball that clearly in rely on bottom hearing. The ball is actually

bold underarm. So you don't have the fast, overarm balls that you see in normal cricket.

And also to, they're allowed to have basically a spider in the field. Somebody who can see

to help direct the, the filters onto the ball. And the other part about this, and I think

this is the absolute stroke of genius and the beautiful part about it, is the ball

itself has been modified to help the players in that the ball actually has ball bearings

inside it. And it's not normally a large white baller can be other colors, but white

just to help the, the visually impaired see it. And what happens is, as the ball is bold

and as the ball moves, these ball bearings make kind of like clicking and clinking sound.

So the blind batters can actually figure out what speed is coming down towards them where

the ball actually is on the pitch and prepare themselves to actually hit it. So when they,

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