Excelciors Club were playing against Greers in a Kolkata League cricket match. The last wicket pair scored more than 100 runs to see Excelsiors win. Suvro Joarder scored 82 and became the match winning hero for his team.
He didn't know the biggest nightmare of his life will happen on the same evening. Suvro had a motorbike accident which resulted his one leg getting amputated from above the knee.
The cricketer's dream was shattered. Suvro, who scored more than 700 runs in that season, took 6/7 months to get rid of the trauma, but slowly decided to come back to the playing field.
Initially he started playing cricket for the specially challenged and with his gradually good show he is now the captain of physically challenged cricket team of India. Till this, there are stories plenty of stories like this.
Now, comes a twist in the tale. Suvro is going try something like what Oscar Pistorius did it in Athletics. He will challenge the able bodied cricketers in Kolkata League. Excelsiors, his old club has signed him for this year's Kolkata League second division cricket. Cricket Association of Bengal has given him clearance a few days back so that he can play against the able bodied cricketers. If the opposition captain agrees he can even take help of a runner while batting.
Now, in the second or third week of February he is going to play the Kolkata League against able bodied cricketers.
Suvro has started practicing hard. He can stretch his foot and play forward drives, he plays inside out lifted shots. Plays the back door shot with precision.
Who says, with one leg one can't score runs, “I will have to prove it”
The one legged cricketer has watched the videos of Ricky Ponting and did some fine tuning to his pull shot as in initially pulling the ball wasn't easy with one leg. Ponting used to play the pull shot in almost standing position. Suvro has learned the trick.
Come February, Kolkata maidan will witness something extraordinary. ' Indian Pistorius “of cricket will challenge the able bodied cricketers and will be trying his best to change the perception of disability.
Suvro says, “People won't use the word disability anymore. If I can score the word will be pronounced like this-ability".