LAHORE – The Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) has appointed Rabia Shahzadi as the first captain of national women blind cricket team.
“We have finalized the names of captain and vice-captain of the national women cricket team after a thorough search and based a criteria keeping in view the performance and potential of the candidates in the game and its allied aspects,” said Syed Sultan Shah, Chairman, PBCC on Wednesday.
The PBCC chairman, along with his wife Nusrat Shabbir, interviewed five women blind cricket players for this vital and historic prolific role.
“It is a history making moment in national blind women cricket and it will go a long way in establishing women cricket on solid lines,” he said.
Rabia is currently doing her BS in Kinnaird College for Women University Lahore. She is partially blind (B2) category player.
Aneela Shahzadi has been named as Vice-Captain of the team, she is also doing BS in Lahore College for Women University Lahore. She is totally blind (B1) category player.
“They will lead the Pakistan side in the forthcoming first International Women Blind Cricket series to be played between Nepal and Pakistan from January 27, 2019 to February 4,” said Syed Sultan.
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The first Pakistan Women Blind Cricket Team will be selected amongst 25 players, currently under training in an 8-day-long camp in Rawalpindi, on 31st December.
Two blind factory workers invented blind cricket in Melbourne, Australia, in 1922 when they improvised the game using a tin can containing rocks. A few years later, in 1928, the first sports ground and clubhouse for blind cricket was built at Kooyong in Melbourne.
