A Bangladesh Daily insulted Indian Cricketers

June 30, 2015 19:49
A Bangladesh Daily insulted Indian Cricketers

Don't expect good things from poor minds.

A Bangladesh daily made the above lines true. After the nation recently won a historic 2-1 ODI series against India at home, a caricature in a leading Bangladesh daily - Prothom Alo -- shows top Indian players, including MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, with their head half shaven and under the towering presence of Mustafizur Rahman, the talented novice pacer, who single-handedly collapsed Indian batting.

The caricature, advertising stationery goods, shows Mustafizur with a cutter, the delivery that fetched him a record 13 wickets. The photo-shopped image has been published in the paper's humor magazine section - Rosh Alo - on June 29.

But the satire, mocking India's miserable performance, failed to evoke the response from its local fans as many Bangladeshis criticized the post in the paper's Facebook edition, calling it "unceremonious" and "betraying Bangladeshi culture".

Bangladesh fans were over the roof when the rookie pacer Mustifizur knocked out top Indian batsmen in the first two ODIs on June 18 and June 21. Although India won a consolation match in the third game on June 24, Bangladesh credited themselves with some fine all-round performance.

During the series, a section of the fans harassed well-known Indian fan Sudhir Chaudhary in Dhaka. The colourful Sachin Tendulkar fan had to be given extra security to save himself from overzealous Bangladesh supporters.

But the caricature in a respected Bengali daily on Monday morning has not gone down well with several Bangladesh fans.

Animesh Roy asked the paper's editors on Facebook: "Will Bangladesh be able to take the pressure after this (caricature)? Will you do the same when our team loses?"

Another reader, Akram Hossain Rumye, wrote: "Dear Editor, this is in poor taste. You have shamed 16 Crore Bangladeshis. Is mocking India part of our culture?" Raznan Ahmed wrote: "Mustifizur is looking like a barber with the cutter in his hand."

- Manohar

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