India beat Pakistan to retain Blind Cricket World Cup title

NEW DELHI: Sunil Ramesh rose to the instance as he played a perfect knock of 93 to assist India retain Blind Cricket World Cup name after beating arch-rivals Pakistan by way of two wickets in an exciting ultimate played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in UAE on Saturday.

Chasing an enormous 308-run target in 40 overs, India romped home in the penultimate over of the match. India started off their chase in a cracking approach racing to 111/1 after 15 overs however quickly misplaced two quick wickets in the form of run-outs to be at 116/three after 16th over.



Sunil and skipper Ajay Tiwari, who scored a positive 62, then took the responsibility and took India's total to 190/three after 25 overs. India, who misplaced Ramesh, had been 271/4 after 35 overs. Ramesh was once cleaned up by way of Amir Ishfaq.

India stuttered against the ultimate phases of the sport when they misplaced Ajay followed by way of two hasty dismissals however after all held their nerves to win the overall.



Earlier, driving on Badar Munir's positive half-century, Pakistan scored 307/8 to offer India giant target in the ultimate of the 5th version of the event.

Riyasat Khan and skipper Nisar Ali additionally played solid knocks of 48 and 47 respectively to take Pakistan total previous 300 when they had been put into bat by way of India. Pakistan reached 200-run mark in 27 overs after shedding 5 wickets.


India, who're the defending champions, defeated Pakistan by way of seven wickets of their team match on January 13.


Pakistan made it to the overall after defeating Sri Lanka by way of 156 runs while India beat Bangladesh by way of seven wickets to ebook their position in the ultimate. India, who're favourites to retain the name, have remained unbeaten on this event.


The Pakistan Blind Cricket Council has invited ICC CEO David Richardson, former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas and previous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani to witness the overall.


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