When the players of Pakistan Disabled Cricket Team returned to Pakistan after winning the tri-nation cricket tournament, they were given the same warm welcome at Karachi Airport. Now the difference was that Pakistan Disabled The cricket team returned home with the winning trophy, not only the families of the National team players but also a large number of PDCA officials, media representatives and people belonging to the Karachi cricket constituency were present at the airport. Every cricketer in the National disabled cricket team was considering himself a hero of Pakistan at that time. Playing cricket in England is a big thing even if you win the tournament, it is different. The acceptance by the National media was a great reward for the PDCA officials themselves, and why not the PDCA was being rewarded for its hard work.
The National disabled cricket team was consistently winning, winning victories while the tour of England was also successfully completed without any complaints from any player or team officials. It is a fact that not everyone is able to represent their beloved country in any sphere of life. In 2010, when the National disabled cricket team was touring abroad for the first time, the founder of Disabled Cricket, Saleem Karim, was worried that the future of disabled cricket in Pakistan would be bleak if there were any ups and downs during this tour. Athletes of any country are ambassadors of their country abroad. While every good deed of theirs enhances the honor and respect of their country, their slightest slip is enough to discredit their homeland, Pakistan’s disabled cricketers have not taken any such step abroad or which has inflamed the sanctity of the beloved homeland and this is not a trivial matter.
When the Pakistan Disabled Cricket Team played a five-nation Disabled Cricket Tournament in Bangladesh in 2015, the national anthem of Pakistan was played before each match and the national flag was also hoisted. After the fall of Dhaka, it has rarely happened that the green crescent flag of Pakistan has been hoisted in Bangladesh. The flag was hoisted five times, an honor that only the Pakistan cricket and hockey team could get before. This is the good fortune of PDCA, its sincere devotion to its sport, its heartfelt commitment to its players, its sense of sanctity of the beloved homeland and above all its national anthems and national flags.
I commend the PDCA for not having any breach of discipline abroad during the last 11 years and this is a matter on which not only the PDCA is rightly concerned. A Not only that, but I would consider it a lifetime achievement of the PDCA officials that they selected a class of people from remote areas of Pakistan who in some cases even their own family members are “remarkable”. “I don’t understand. To provide such people with a conducive environment for cricket, to take them on trips abroad and to train them in such a way that they become the pride of their country is certainly a test of patience, hard and equal to jihad in today’s age of selfishness. Is .
When these disabled cricketers sing the national anthem of Pakistan in any country outside Pakistan and the national flag is waving in front of them, no one can imagine their feelings and that these feelings are really recorded. Can’t be done but one sentence can be written that such feelings that are dedicated to the soul cannot be bought for the wealth of the world. (to be continued )
The Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association (PDCA) is responsible for the promotion and expansion of the game through its associate and affiliate members throughout the country for all the Physically Disabled Cricketers of the country and PDCA is also recognized by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) who is the governing body of cricket in Pakistan.