{"id":7744,"date":"2019-02-27T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2020-01-08T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:20:28","slug":"pakistans-blind-cricket-team-visited-pak-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=7744","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Blind Cricket Team visited Pak HC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Deputy-High-Commissioner-Mr.-Janbaz-Khan-with-Pakistan-Blind-Cricket-Team-members-1-1024x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7750\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Blind Cricket Team, which is\ncurrently in Sri Lanka to play bilateral cricket series comprising three ODIs\nand three T20 matches with Sri Lankan counterpart, visited the High Commission\nof Pakistan on February 26, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Mr.\nJanbaz Khan congratulated the team members for winning all the ODI matches\nagainst Sri Lanka. He expressed the hope that the team will perform well in the\ncoming T20 matches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that blind cricket helps the\nblind community and individuals to gain confidence. He further added that\nsports activities are moving from strength to strength in Pakistan with wider\ntraining facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also briefed the blind cricket team about\nPakistan-Sri Lanka ties which both countries are enjoying since the inception\nof diplomatic relations.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Blind Cricket team has reached in\nthe final of all the five&nbsp;editions of Blind Cricket World Cup (One-day\nInternational) (1998, 2002, 2006, 2014 &amp; 2018)&nbsp;and won the two World\nCups consecutively in 2002 and 2006. The team also stood Runners-up in all the\n2 editions of Twenty-20 World Cup Cricket of the Blind (2012, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Blind Cricket Team, which is currently in Sri Lanka to play bilateral cricket series comprising three ODIs and three T20 matches with Sri Lankan counterpart, visited the High Commission of Pakistan on February 26, 2019. Deputy High Commissioner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}