For the first time in life, the 25-year-old Opener of the Indian physical disability cricket team, Wasim Iqbal won the Man of the Match award for his match-winning 69 at Worcestershire’s Kidderminster Cricket club in the final league game of the first T20 Physical Disability World Championship.
The young lad scored a match-winning 43-ball 69 which included six sixes and four fours. Iqbal is an engineering graduate Iqbal whose leg surgery went wrong in childhood ensured a lifelong problem in his right leg. But Iqbal did not let his disability to effect his career choice and picked up a cricket bat and joined the local club ‘Khan Sultans’ which is mentored by local star Parvez Rasool who played one ODI and one T20I for India. Cricketing gear of both players from Kashmir in India’s physically disabled team – Iqbal and fast bowler Aamir Hasan – have been sponsored by Rasool too.
Iqbal admits that a win in the tournament final will give a huge boost to disability cricket in India and also to the youth like him. He is truly a gem of Kashmir and inspiring many others to fight tough situation.
