The Pakistan Blind Cricket team continued the winning streak in the Twenty-20 World Cricket Cup for the Blind by defeating South Africa with a huge margin of 242 runs in their second game of the tournament.
In the morning at Aditya Global Sports Ground Bangalore, South Africa asked Pakistan to take guard and they piled up the highest total of World Cup so far by scoring 358 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in allotted 20 overs. Muhammad Zohaib Ghafoor (B3) category was the star of Pakistan innings as he scored his hundred on just 36 balls and remained unbeaten on 124 runs off just 52 balls, he grabbed the title of fastest century scored by an individual in Twenty-20 format, (later on after couple of hours Ajay Reddy from India break this record by scoring a ton on just 34 balls against England in another match), Muhammad Zafar also batted splendidly and scored unbeaten 80 runs off 22 balls.
Earlier the openers Muhammad Akram and Nisar Ali gave a solid start to Pakistan, they made 74 and 59 runs respectively. Pakistani fielders and bowlers also didn’t allow the South African to score freely and restricted South Africa on 116 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in stipulated 20 overs. Muhammad Akram, Zeeshan Abbasi, Anees Javeed and Zohaib shared a wicket each. Result: Pakistan won by 242 runs Man of the Match: Muhammad Zohaib Ghafoor.