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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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