{"id":124213,"date":"2022-10-25T11:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=124213"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:02:35","slug":"former-cricketer-yuvraj-singh-named-brand-ambassador-of-t20-world-cup-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/former-cricketer-yuvraj-singh-named-brand-ambassador-of-t20-world-cup-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Former cricketer Yuvraj Singh named brand ambassador of T20 World Cup for the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Former cricketer Yuvraj Singh named brand ambassador of T20 World Cup for the Blind:<\/strong> The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) on Friday announced former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh as their brand ambassador for the 3rd T20 World Cup for the Blind to be held in India in December.\u00a0<strong>Ajay Kumar Reddy B2 (Andhra Pradesh)<\/strong>\u00a0will lead the Indian team while\u00a0<strong>Venkateswara Rao Dunna \u2013 B2 (Andhra Pradesh)<\/strong>\u00a0will be the vice-captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Cup matches will be held from December 6 to 17. The participating countries for the 3rd T20 World Cup for the&nbsp;<strong>Blind are India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/strong>&nbsp;The opening match will be played between defending champions India and Nepal on December 6 in Faridabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Samarthanam Trust:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Cup is an initiative of the Samarthanam Trust for the disabled, which has been organizing this championship since 2012. Samarthanam perceives sports as a medium to improve inclusion and encourage persons with disabilities on various fronts. Since its inception, the trust has reached out to more than 25,000 visually impaired crickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samarthanam\u2019s sports wing, Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI), was established in&nbsp;<strong>2010<\/strong>&nbsp;to foster the cricketing dreams of visually impaired cricket players and to provide a platform to portray their unbound talent in the game of blind Cricket. CABI is affiliated with&nbsp;<strong>World Blind Cricket Council (WBC).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer Yuvraj Singh named brand ambassador of T20 World Cup for the Blind: The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) on Friday announced former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh as their brand ambassador for the 3rd T20 World Cup for the Blind to be held in India in December.\u00a0Ajay Kumar Reddy B2 (Andhra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":124214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4970],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-124213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2022","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124215,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213\/revisions\/124215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}