India win second T20 Blind World Cup by defeating Pakistan in the final
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The defending champions India successfully retained their title of the blind T20 world champions when they beat their arch-rivals Pakistan in the final at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. They won by 9 wickets and won the tournament which was held only for the second time. In the previous edition as well, they had got the better of the neighbors to clinch the title.
Pakistan had a tremendous run in the tournament as they had won all their 9 matches heading into the final. They had defeated India too earlier in the league matches and won against England in the semi-final.
India, on the other hand, lost only to Pakistan in the league stages and won all their remaining 8 games before the final. They edged past their other neighbors Sri Lanka in the semi-final by a massive margin of 10 wickets to set up a summit clash against Pakistan.
The final saw Pakistan batting first and putting up a good score of 197/9 on the board. Their charge was led by Badar Munir who scored 57 runs off 37 balls with 8 fours and a six. He had a fifty runs partnership with Muhammad Jamil for the first wicket as the latter scored 24 runs.
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The innings witnessed wickets falling at regular intervals but the scoring rate was excellent that took them to a commendable total. For India, Ketan Patel and Md. Jaffar Iqbal bagged two wickets apiece where Ajay Kumar Reddy and Sunil R took one each.
India, in reply, had a tremendous start to the innings with the openers adding 110 runs for the first wicket. Prakash Jayaramaiah and Ajay Kumar Reddy were ruthless on the bowlers and kept the required run rate well under check. Reddy was run out for 43 runs off 31 balls in the 11th over.
Ketan Patel who came into bat at number 3 scored 26 runs off 13 balls but was retired hurt at the team’s score of 161/1. Jayaramaiah then took charge of the chase and scored an unbeaten 99 with 15 fours and took India to a victory by 9 wickets with 14 balls to spare.
For Pakistan, none of the bowlers could pick up a wicket and Badar Munir was the most economical bowler, that too by giving away 8.75 runs per over. Rest others received a hammering from the Indian batsmen who secured a consecutive title for the nation.
Congratulations on winning T20 world cup for the blind. Amazing. Hats off!
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) February 12, 2017
Congratulations to our #OtherMenInBlue on winning the T20 World Cup for the Blind. They have lit up smiles for a billion people. pic.twitter.com/sEZiz2mXxU
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 12, 2017
Many Congratulations to India on winning the #BlindWorldT20 . Without eyes, but not without vision. Super proud . pic.twitter.com/eVH7qq6pOw
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) February 12, 2017
Congratulations to Defending champions India beat Pakistan by nine wickets to win T20 Blind World Cup 2017 #BlindWorldT20 ??
— Amit bhandari (@Amitbhandari110) February 12, 2017
India wins T20 World Cup for Blind.
Congratulations to the ‘Men in Blue’. You make us proud!#BlindWorldT20 #INDvPAK @blind_cricket pic.twitter.com/ZJK2HiK6dn— Dr Rutvij Patel (@DrRutvij) February 12, 2017
India beats Pak in #BlindWorldT20 . Don't know why they hv not send their star cricketer Afridi, he has years of experience in this cricket
— AprilFoolsDay (@TheSehwagFC) February 12, 2017
Congratulations to the Indian team on winning the #BlindWorldT20 ??You all made us proud?Keep it up? pic.twitter.com/aThen1RNBZ
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) February 12, 2017
Why did u say blind? It really sounds so cheap, Say visually challanged.Thumbs up for all of them.They r real life 'Kaabil'. #BlindWorldT20
— Virender Sehwag (@VirenderSehweg) February 12, 2017
Man of the Series:
B1 Category: Riasat Khan ( Pak)
B2 Category: Bandar Munir ( Pak )
B3 Category: Suranga Sambath ( SL )— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) February 12, 2017
Prakash Jayaram declared man of the match for his 99* vs Pakistan in 2017 visually impaired T20 finals…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) February 12, 2017
India vs Pakistan WT20 Finals:
2007: India beat Pakistan
2012: India beat Pakistan*
2017: India beat Pakistan*
* Visually Impaired T20
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) February 12, 2017
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