Mumbai/Dhaka: The rain-hit Test ended up in a draw, but Virat Kohli-led Indian cricket team will take it as a good performance against Bangladesh. After the only Test, India’s Test players left Dhaka on Monday. However, not all of them were a happy lot. One half of the opening pair, Murali Vijay was fined 25 per cent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching logo regulations on his bat.
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Vijay’s fine batting display helped him to amass 150 runs in India’s first innings, allowing the visitors to declare at 462/6 overnight on the fourth day. “According to the new ICC rules, length of the sponsors’ logo can’t be more than nine inches. But it was found that Vijay’s bat flouted the rule,” a team official was quoted as saying, according to a report in the ‘Hindustan Times’.
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Chennai-born Vijay’s bat sported a smaller logo just below the logo of his main sponsor, and according to the team official the ICC didn’t approve of it. “Vijay was told that his bat didn’t conform to ICC rules and was penalised 25 per cent of his match fees. He accepted the decision,” said the official.
Normally, bat sponsorships range from anything between Rs 2 crore soaring right up to Rs 10 crore or more. Vijay’s bat sports an SS logo but there is also a small MVJ8 logo beneath it.
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The penalty certainly didn’t bring a happy ending to Vijay’s tour. Team Director Ravi Shastri on the other hand was pleased with the effort of his team and treated the boys to dinner. The team went to an upmarket joint at Gulshan and came back around 11pm.
Test players - Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Varun Aaron and Vijay have left the camp. But on the bright side, led by ODI captain MS Dhoni, seven players — Suresh Raina, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Ambati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Stuart Binny and Mohit Sharma — arrived around 6pm on Monday.
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The action now shifts to Mirpur, let’s wait and watch if India does manage to continue with their winnings ways. Or Bangladesh may even just give Kohli and Dhoni a ‘bamboo’.
