Pasban Giant Cricket Bat
The Pasban Giant Cricket Bat was unveiled at a ceremony held at Defense Stadium, Karachi on February 28, 1996. The bat was prepared in a frenzied environment leading up to the 1996 Cricket World Cup. The unveiling ceremony of the bat, which is the biggest solid wooden cricket bat in the world, was well attended by large number of citizens of Karachi. Pasban workers took the bat to the Defense Stadium from near the Gilani Railway station in a trawler rally and it has been titled as "Ambassadors of peace and love."
The bat is 50 feet (15.2 m) in length, including the handle, which measures 15 feet (4.57 m) in length. The width of the bat measures 6 feet (1.82 m). The wooden bat is solid, and looks exactly like a normal one. Pakistan's ace batting star Javed Miandad was the first person to put his signature on the bat, followed by then-Sindh Chief Minister Abdullah Shah and the president of Pasban-e-Pakistan, Altaf Shakoor. After the unveiling ceremony, the bat was placed at the National Stadium in Karachi for public display. Later on, the bat was sent around Pakistan, including the cities of Hyderabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar. Then-president Farooq Ahmed Khan Laghari and then-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, ambassadors of the different countries in Islamabad, members of parliament including Qazi Hussain Ahmed, of Jamaat-e-Islami, various cricketers, politicians and other dignitaries signed the bat. The bat is still there and awaiting Pakistan's team victory in a World Cup so that this bat can be given to the national team in a colorful ceremony dhadi dharman
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