Blind women of India and Pakistan show cricket spirit with handshakes
Pakistan players (right) shake hands with Indians at the end of the Women’s Blind Twenty20 World Cup 2025 match in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, November 16, 2025. — AFP Blind women from India and Pakistan put aside political tensions on Sunday to shake hands with neutral Sri Lanka in a cricket tournament for the visually impaired. In what organizers are describing as the world’s first blind women’s T20 tournament, players from the two South Asian neighbors showed they had sporting vision even if they were blind – unlike their regular national teams. Tensions on and off the field have been high








