LAHORE, Sept 24: Pakistan Cricket Council for the Blind announced its 17-member team to take part in the World Cup for the blind being played in India in December next.

Masood Jan will lead the side and Syed Sultan Shah will be his deputy,said a spokesman of the PCCB here Tuesday.

The team, Sultan Shah, Anwar Ali, Mujeeb Din, Zareen Khan, Muhammad Hussain, Rizwan Ahmad, Zafar Alam, Muhammad Zeeshan, Muzaffar, Jawed Khan, Zohaib Akaml, Shahzad Jawad, Masood Jan, Adnan, Zeeshan Abbasi, Ghous Baksh and Mudassar.

Our Peshawar Correspondent adds: Secretary of Pakistan Cricket Council for Blinds (PCCB), Syed Sultan Shah has expressed concern over the selection of bogus and undeserving players for the next World Cup scheduled to played in Chennai (Madras), India during Dec 3-18.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Shah said that a Lahore-based bogus cricket club for blind cricketers had also selected a 15-member team for the World Cup where the genuine players who played the first World Cup in South Africa in 1998 had been ignored altogether.

He asked the PCB chief Lt-Gen Tauqeer Zia to intervene and save the blind players from being exploited.