Bangladesh media manager Rabeed Imam told DNA that it is the practice of the team to take a group picture during every series
The only Test between India and Bangladesh is a historic occasion for both the nations, more so for the neighbours from the eastern border. To capture the moment for posterity, the Bangladesh squad started to arrange chairs for a group photo with less than 10 minutes to go for the start of Day 4.
Even as some of the Bangladesh players occupied their seats and the support staff was beginning to walk for the photo session, the players already seated got up and walked back to the pavilion with chairs in hand. The group photo had to be abandoned as the fourth umpire Nitin Menon objected to it as play as about to start and the umpires Marais Erasmus and Joel Wilson were on their way to the centre. A Hyderabad Cricket Association official said that the time given for group photo was 9.20 am to 9.23 am.
Bangladesh media manager Rabeed Imam told DNA that it is the practice of the team to take a group picture during every series. Perhaps, Bangladesh team can still get the group picture done well before the umpires take the field on the final morning on Monday.
When Rao lost his MBE
Former leg-spinner MV Narasimha Rao from Hyderabad is the only Indian Test cricketer to be conferred Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen. While being a proud recipient of the honour for his services to cricket and to the community in Northern Ireland in 2011, the 62-year-old Rao is a distraught man these days.
He has lost the MBE medal that was presented to him by the Queen. "I was at a college function as a chief guest on January 28 in Hyderabad. My family and I are very upset about it," Rao, who played four Tests in 1978-79 and who led Hyderabad to their second and last Ranji Trophy title in 1986-87, said here on Sunday.
Rao has played and coached in Ireland for 27 years, his wards including England captain Eoin Morgan, before returning to Hyderabad to join as director of the Hyderabad Cricket Academy of Excellence.
Interestingly, among his services to Ireland was being a brand ambassador of anti-racism in European Union for six weeks in 2009. "My poster with the anti-racism message was all over the public transport buses during that period besides featuring in billboards at important city pockets in Northern Ireland," Rao, popularly known as Bobjee, told DNA here, before walking across to catch up with his former team-mate Sunil Gavaskar, who is here as a television commentator. Having lodged a police complaint of the lost medal, Bobjee prayed that he receive the MBE medal at the earliest. Until then, it will be sleepless nights for him.
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