Indian blind cricket workforce on this undated photograph. — Fb/@Cricket4Blind
Indian blind cricket workforce will tour Pakistan for the Blind Cricket T20 World Cup 2024 this month amid uncertainty clouding the participation of the arch-rivals within the forthcoming Champions Trophy 2025.
The World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) on Friday introduced the schedule for the fourth version of the Blind T20 World Cup, that includes groups from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka and hosts Pakistan.
The mega occasion will run from November 23 to December 3 with matches scheduled in Lahore and Multan.
Lahore will host 15 matches together with the curtain raiser between Pakistan and South Africa, whereas 9 matches, together with semi-finals and last shall be held in Multan. Whereas, bitter rivals Pakistan and India will collide on November 25.
India have gained the entire earlier editions of the T20 World Cup, held in 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The fourth version marks the primary occasion that the mega occasion is being held exterior India.
Regardless of this, the Indian blind cricket workforce was the primary to substantiate its participation on this 12 months’s mega occasion.
The event got here when India males’s cricket workforce’s participation in subsequent 12 months’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan is unsure.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) numerously said that the choice relating to whether or not India will journey to Pakistan, shall be made by the federal authorities.
Earlier this month, BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla shared that the cricket governing physique was nonetheless awaiting the federal government’s approval relating to Champions Trophy.
“No decision has been taken (yet). However, our policy is that for international tours, we always seek permission from the government,” Shukla said.
