Oscar Stubbs is the vice-captain of the NSW blind or vision impaired team and has unleashed a whirlwind record innings at the national titles in Brisbane
Combines for record partnership of 307 with Lindsay Heaven
Vision impaired cricketer Oscar Stubbs at the National Cricket Inclusion Championships at Marchant Park in Brisbane.Vision impaired cricketer Oscar Stubbs at the National Cricket Inclusion Championships at Marchant Park in Brisbane.
He combined for an unbroken NCIC record partnership of 307 with captain Lindsay Heaven , in what teammates are calling a “match made in heaven” combination. The 22-year-old Cricket NSW employee, who idolises Australian and NSW batter Steve Smith, played able-bodied cricket until he finished school. “Then I took up blind cricket and I’ve been playing ever since,” he told AAP. “With my sight, since birth I have a thing called optic neuropathy where the nerves from my brain to my eyes aren’t computing properly and aren’t getting the same message everybody else would normally get.
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