Friday 1 July 2016

Unknown indian cricket hero

Who is the god of cricket ? Most of us need not think to answer this question. Because just within second everyone is able to say the name of Sachin. Who won the first world cup for india? Most of us able to answer Kapil dev. Yes we all are aware of almost most of the important heroes of indian cricket.
       
          Do you who won the world cup for blind cricket? To this question almost majority of us are unable to answer. And majority of us don't know whether india has won any blind cricketers world cup. Yes we have won the world cup under the captaincy of shekar naik. 
     
         The first ever world T20 cup was lifted by india also first ever world cup of T20 blind cricket was also lifted by india in 2012 by shekar naik.Shekar naik was born in karnataka in the year1986. In 1998 he was selected for the state level championship in karnataka. He became noticed when he scored 136 runs just for 46 balls in year 2000. Then he scored 249 runs in one day cricket match aganist kerala which led them to win the title.
       
         In the year year 2001 Shekar naik was awarded man of the series in under 18 cricket tournament in hyderabad. In 2002 india played the world cup but only reached semi finals.

       In the year 2004 indian blind cricket team won a series aganist pakistan. In the year 2006 india reached finals of world blind cricket world cup. But in the year 2012 under the captaincy of shekar naik india lifted their first blind cricketer's world cup defeating england. Naik scored 134 runs just of 58 balls in the tournament.


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