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Bangalore Prepares For Blind Cricket T20 World Cup

22 November 2012
Bangalore Prepares For Blind Cricket T20 World Cup
Bangalore Prepares For Blind Cricket T20 World Cup
Bangalore is preparing to host nine blind cricket teams from around the world in December
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The city of Bangalore, India, is the destination where blind cricketers from nine countries around the world will gather from 1st to 13th December 2012, for the first ever World Twenty20 cricket tournament for the blind. 
 
The teams involved are: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies.
 
The opening ceremony will take place on 1st December while the preliminary phase of the tournament will see India play Australia and England in the two opening matches of the tournament. In this phase of the tournament, there will be four matches per day - two at each of the venues allocated.

The semi-finals will be played on 12th December, with the final on 13th December.
 
A number of past and present Indian top cricketers have pledged their support to this tournament. Nepal will be the only team to have two female players in their line up.

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The city of Bangalore, India, is the destination where blind cricketers from nine countries around the world will gather from 1st to 13th December 2012, for the first ever World Twenty20 cricket tournament for the blind. The teams involved are: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies.
The schedule for the Blind Cricket Twenty20 World Cup has been revealed, the tournament running from 1st to 13th December in Bangalore, India. The competing teams in the inaugural such competition are Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies.
The one and only Dada of Indian cricket, Saurav Ganguly has donned many avatars and his latest will be as the Brand Ambassador for the forthcoming Twenty20 World Cup for the Blind.
India's blind cricket team has defeated Pakistan's blind cricket team in a T20 three match series winning by two games to one and won the opening ODI. The Pakistan team began the series with their own share of problems since two of their key players were held up in Islamabad because of visa problems and captain Abdul Rasak was forced to sit on the sidelines having been injured in practice session before the first game.
Pakistan clinched a 2-1 series win over India as the three-match series between the blind cricket teams from both countries went down to the wire in Lahore. Pakistan won the opening game by 71 runs before India hit back to force a decider, which was won by the home side by the margin of six wickets.
The first Twenty20 of the series between India and Pakistan's blind cricketers was played at Lahore Gymkhana Cricket Ground, Bagh-e-Jinnah Lahore and saw the hosts prevail by 71 runs. Honourable Mr. Latif Khosa, the Governor of Punjab officially inaugurated the Brien Holden Vision Pakistan-India Blind Cricket Series 2011.
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