ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Pakistan’s national cricketers visited ailing children at a polyclinic hospital here on Tuesday.

Finding nature-given time from their hectic cricket schedule, the Pakistan team inquired after the kids admitted in the children ward of the Federal Government Services Hospital.

Skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq led his squad on the visit during which the players distributed cash among the children and prayed for their recovery.

The players also vowed to raise funds for treatment of the ailing children who were pleasantly surprised to find their cricketing icons visiting the hospital.

Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Dr Nasim Ashraf also accompanied the players.

“My delight knows no bound as I see you standing in front of me,” expressed the twelve-year-old Hammad suffering from pneumonia while speaking to Inzamam who told him that his team instantly decided to visit them once their first match of the One-day International (ODI) series against the West Indies was washed out earlier in the morning.

The Ward In-charge, Dr. Asifa Murtaza, told world record-holder batsman Mohammad Yousuf, vice-captain Younis Khan, coach Bob Woolmer and others that besides the kids admitted there, a good number of children also visited the ward daily for the infusion of blood for some debilitating diseases.

The players also gave bouquets to the children before Medical Superintendent Dr. Mohammad Javed Chaudhary saw off the Pakistan team with some of the kids barely holding back their tears. --APP