Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

This week:

The Blind Cricket Commentator.

We cross to Harare in Zimbabwe to talk to Dean du Plessis, the world’s only blind cricket commentator.

As well as telling us how he commentates using the sounds picked up through stump mics, Dean talks growing up in Zimbabwe, being sent to boarding school at the age of three, his love of Def Leppard and the inevitability of tequila.

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Dean du Plessis

Twitter: @dean_plessis

‘Dean at Stumps’

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Cricket commentator Dean du Plessis in action in the commentary box wearing a broadcast headset.]

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