Letters: A new low for Bangladesh

Bangladesh cricket has sunk to a terrible low by daring to publish a shocking stationery advert in a leading Bangla daily displaying seven top Indian cricketers, including skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli with half-tonsured heads with the hero of their triumph, the young Mustafizur Rahman promoting a paper cutter from a stationary store. There can be nothing more disgraceful and malicious than mocking your opponents in full public glare. Cricket is deemed a gentleman's game but the Bangladeshis have chosen to distort this very meaning. The picture is bad advertisement, totally biased, immature and one-sided and in one stroke has taken away the sheen from Bangladesh's one-day international series win against India. The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the sports ministry should not take this humiliation lying down and should strongly take up the matter with the Bangla cricket board.

N J Ravi Chander Bengaluru

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