KARACHI. Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed on Saturday lauded the services rendered by the Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association (PDCA) as a founder of disabled cricket around the world.

Sarfraz expressed his views on the celebration of the World Disabled Day in his capacity as the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony at the Rashid Latif Cricket Academy Ground where in a festival T20 match PDCA President’s XI defeated PDCA Patron’s XI by 31 runs.

On this occasion a cake-cutting ceremony was also held in which Sarfraz and Saleem Karim, the founder of disabled cricket, jointly participated.

Also present at the ceremony were PDCA honorary secretary Amiruddin Ansari, media manager Mohammad Nizam and former first-class player Zafar Ahmed.

Summarised scores:

PDCA PRESIDENT’S XI 117-7 in 20 overs (Mohammad Zeeshan 26, Haroon Rasheed 25 Mohammad Kalam 24, Arif Richard 20; Mohammad Jahangir 2-14, Rao Javed 2-27); PDCA PATRON’S XI 86 in 15.2 overs (Umar Farooq 26, Ali Raza 18; Mavia 2-12, Mohammad Kalam 2-14, Ameer Ahmed 2-17).

Published in Dawn, December 4th, 2017