Pakistan blind team loses T20 series

Go down to India in second game by five wickets.

KARACHI: The Pakistan blind team faced its second successive defeat as their Indian counterparts took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match Bilateral Blind Twenty20 series underway in Chennai.

According to details made available, India won the second match by five wickets after achieving the 180-run target with four balls to spare.

Ganesh Busara (66) and Vikas Patel (54) were the key performers for the hosts after V Mahendar was the destroyer-in-chief with the ball, claiming a five-wicket haul.

Earlier, Mohammad Fayaz excelled for Pakistan with a 46-ball 64 as the tourists posted a competitive total.

The victory secured the series win for the hosts who defeated Pakistan by 53 runs in the opening encounter. The final match of the series will be played today.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2012.