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Twist of fate
Sports Reporter
17 September 1998
The feeling of disappointment is so deep after the morbid performance
of Bangladeshi cricketers at Kuala Lumpur's Commonwealth Games that
Dhaka's Jatrabari-based Bodhua Community Centre in a press release
yesterday withdrew the award it announced for the victorious national
heroes after the ICC triumph last April.
Badhua had declared life-time gratis use of the community centre for
family functions of the ICC victors. But yesterday, because of the
``cruel hoax'' the national cricketers played with a ``nation suffering
from flood'' by being all out for 63 runs in 21 overs when Bangladesh
lost to Northern Ireland by 114 runs, Bodhua revoked the prize.
This is the first instance of its kind and it is not immediately known
whether others will follow suit. The ICC heroes deservedly received
many a laurel in kind and cash but now their very reputation is at
stake.
Source: The Daily Star, Bangladesh
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