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Young Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman, who rattled the mighty Indian batting line-up in the 1-2 series loss, is shown endorsing a cutter – probably symbolising his off-cutters that had many an Indian batsmen in trouble -- and the Indian players holding a banner which reads, 'We have used it. You can use it too.'
Updated : Sep 29, 2017, 11:05 PM IST
In what seems a rather distasteful celebration of Bangladesh's historic series win over India, a Bangladeshi newspaper produced a fake cutter advertisement showing seven Indian cricketers with their heads half-shaven.
Young Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman, who rattled the mighty Indian batting line-up in the 1-2 series loss, is shown endorsing a cutter – probably symbolising his off-cutters that had many an Indian batsmen in trouble -- and the Indian players holding a banner which reads, 'We have used it. You can use it too.'
The seven Indian players shown in the photograph, which appeared in a popular Bangladesh national daily called Prothom Alo on June 29, are skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Shikhar Dhawan and Ravichandran Ashwin.
The photograph create quite a furore in social media on Tuesday, with many Indian fans showing their anger on Twitter.