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Our Results and Achievements
This Council has organized
eight (8) major National Tournaments besides Two Double-Wicket Tournaments since
1997.
We are proud that the Pakistani Blind Cricket Team participated
in the 1st World Cup Cricket for the Blind held in Delhi, India in 1998 and stood
runners-up.
The Pakistan Blind Cricket Team also set five World Records
in that World Cup.
Pakistan Blind Cricket Team tour to South Africa in 2000,
organised by this Council, produced a 6-0 win for Pakistan - a record in the history
of the cricket for the blind. Several other World Records were set there.
In August 2002, the PBCC team toured England and won the
Umar Rashid Memorial Trophy after beating England 3-1 in a series of 4 One-Day
International matches.
So far, Pakistani blind players have set ten (10) World
Records detailed below:
World Records
- Highest score
by an individual blind player: 262 by Masood Jaan (Pak v RSA), Delhi, 1998.
- Highest score
by a team: 376 by Pakistan (Pak v RSA), Delhi 1998.
- Fastest Century:
37 balls by Ashraf Bhatti, (Pak v NZ), Delhi 1998.
- Fastest fifty:
17 balls by Abdul Razzaq, (Pak v Aus), Delhi 1998.
- Maximum individual
boundaries: 42 by Masood Jaan, (Pak v RSA), Delhi1998.
- Maximum catches
taken by a player in a match: 4 by Adnan Ahmed, (Pak v RSA), South Africa
2000.
- Best wicket-keeping
performance in an inning: 2 stumpings and 3 catches by Ishfaq Ahmed, (Pak
v RSA), South Africa 2000.
- Best Fielder:
Zareen Khan who is totally blind took two catches on consecutive balls and
received a distinction, (Pak v RSA), South Africa 2000.
- In the very
first Test match the Pakistan team scored 721 runs for the loss of 8 wickets
against South Africa in 2000.
- Abdul Razzaq,
the fastest bowler in the world of cricket for the blind took five wickets
in the first ever Test match played between Pakistan and South Africa in 2000.
A
key milestone
World’s first Cricket Test match for the Blind: Played between Pakistan
and South Africa in which Pakistan defeated South Africa by 94 runs.
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