ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: President General Pervez Musharraf believes that Pakistan cricket team has the potential to deliver and has to combine together for good results in next month’s World Cup.

“The Pakistani team is talented, it has many individual great players - they have to jell together to materialize their individual and collective potential.”

The president was speaking at a reception held to honour the visually impaired Pakistani team that won the second World Blind Cricket Cup in India.

Musharraf, lauding the performance of the World Cup victorious blind cricket team, on Wednesday asked Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to patronize the visually impaired cricketers to help them win more laurels for the country.

“I hope that PCB will continue to facilitate and fund the blind cricket team so that cricket as a sport for the blind and the visually impaired becomes firmly rooted in Pakistan,” he said.

Musharraf appreciated the skills, positive approach and the will to succeed of Pakistani blind cricketers, stating that they have done the entire nation proud with their outstanding accomplishment.

He announced an award of Rs 500,000 for the blind cricket team.—APP