The chance to play visually impaired cricket has transformed Pakistan-born Hassan Khans life,on and off the fieldOne morning, Hassan Khan woke up blind. Neither he nor his family knew it, or wouldn’t for several years yet,but he was suffering from a genetic disorder. His optic nerves had been damaged and he had lost his sight overnight. He was three. Hassan and his family lived in a small village in Pakistan, outside Multan. No one there really knew what to carry out with a little blind boy. “I didnt carry out anything, or ” Hassan says. “I couldnt carry out anything.” He didn’t proceed to school,didn’t study at all. “My daily routine was to wake up and walk around the shops on my own, visit people’s houses. And that was it, or ” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com