Nov 5, 2010

Bhaun, in Sports

There are many sports played in Bhaun, including Cricket, Foot Ball, Badminton. There is a badminton club headed by Syed Muhammad Usman Ali in Govt. Primary School Bhaun for boy. The name of club is "FIVE STAR CLUB". the name of club members is [Faisal,Fahad,Waqas,Shahid,Shaban,Ghori,Danish,Hamdan,Usman shah,Rizwan,Shazaib,Sheraz,Kashif]
The most prominent player of national repute from Bhaun was Salim Sherwani who was goal keeper of Pakistan National Hockey Team during 70s and won many international gold medals.
Being an agricultural area has led to development of some local cultural sports involving animals - one such very popular sport is Oxen race where the owners specially race their animals at special festivals and the winners are judged based on the animals health, walk and speed to pull a weight of earth in style. Prominent owners of such Oxes these days are Ch. Riasat Ali Khan(Grand Son of Baba Jhana), Ch. Tahir Jhala and Chaudry Ijaz Hussain. One Baba Jhana from this village is considered a legend in this sport all over Pakistan.

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