A team of cricketing eunuchs - men who have had their testicles removed - have beaten a team of men with everything intact in the first game of its kind.
The match took place in the southern Pakistani city of Sukkur between the eunuchs and a team of young men from a local club, according to the BBC.
Eunuchs are seen as social outcasts by Pakistan's largely conservative Islamic society, which has ignored them over the years.
They are forced to eke out a living at the fringes of society, such as by begging, or by flaunting their difference as dancers or sex workers.
The match, which took place in the province of Sindh, was only allowed to take place after a ruling by Pakistan's chief judge - Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry - giving eunuchs greater rights. More...
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