The Kashmiri baseball player Tahir Shabnum of Srinagar is going to play in Dubai Cup-2017, India-Pakistan International Baseball series scheduled to be held at Sharjah Stadium in United Arab Emirates. 
He has been selected after participating in selection trials at Chandigarh and coaching camp held at Patiala organised by the Amateur Baseball Federation of India.
The tournament is scheduled to be held from December-8-2017 and would be organised by the Pakistan Federation Baseball (PFB) under the auspices of Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) and World Baseball Softball Confederation WBSC.
Tahir represented the State number of times in Senior National Baseball Championships at different states of the country and also represented the Kashmir University in All India Inter University Baseball Championship.
Presently Tahir is in final coaching camp which is under way at Patiala and will leave for Dubai on December-6-2017.
Meanwhile the Secretary, J&K State Sports Council Waheed Ur Rahman Para appreciated the Association for great efforts of promoting the game in the state of J&K.