‘First blind women’s World Cup will put cricket team on the map’

Miss Lowe had participated in various sports before she was introduced to cricket for the visually impaired in 2017.

It was a step up from the batting and bowling with her dad, Nick Lowe, in the back garden, but “she gave it a go and loved it”, he said.

Mr Lowe said due to his daughter’s various needs, cricket was the first sport that offered her a “level playing field”.

It also helped her and her parents realise the severity of her sight problems.

In the game, Miss Lowe is classed as a B2 player within the three-tier classification system which categorises the players’ level of sight.

“I have tunnel vision,” she said. “So if you think of looking through a Polo mint, that’s what I can see.”

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