“Helping visually impaired cricket fans to feel more included and experience the atmosphere of a stadium fixture live for the first time was truly moving,” said Edgbaston’s safeguarding and compliance manager, Thomas Cunningham Smith. Two cricket grounds have hit disability barriers for six with the launch of technology that caters to blind and partially sighted fans. At Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham, England, nine cricket enthusiasts took part in a world-first trial of GiveVision’s assistive technology headsets. While such technology advances, sports grounds continue to innovate to improve the experience for blind and visually impaired fans. Lord’s in London, ‘the home of cricket’, has become the first sports arena in the world to be kitted out with a personal navigation system for blind, partially sighted and disabled fans.