Clayton Murzello clayton@ mid- day. com BISHAN Singh Bedi has come down heavily on the visible poor behaviour of the Indian team during Sundayu2019s U- 19 World Cup final against Bangladesh in South Africa, tonguein- cheekly urging the International Cricket Council to u201c put its foot downu201d on such conduct and call it a u201c juvenileu201d and not the u201c U- 19 World Cup.u201d Bangladesh achieved their maiden World Cup triumph by three wickets via the Duckworth- Lewis method and the on- field aggression went on even after the winning runs were hit. Some players reportedly got physical while returning to the pavilion end of Senwes Park, Potchefstroom.
The Bangladeshi players appeared to be more poorly behaved, but Bedi said: u201c Look, what Bangladesh do is their problem, what our boys do is our problem.
You could see that there was abusive language used.
u201c You bat, bowl and field badlyu2026 happens, but thereu2019s no excuse for behaving badly.
The behaviour was disgusting and most disgraceful. The innocence of that age was not visible at all,u201d stressed Bedi, bringing up the age issue. u201c India, Pakistan and Bangladeshu2026 all Asian teams which made the semi- finalsu2026 you could tell from a country mile that the players were not under- 19. Few years ago, Rahul Dravid spoke about the overage issue. What has happened to us? I am very disappointed,u201d the former India skipper asked.
Continuing on the topic of poor behaviour, Bedi lamented: u201c Who can control this? If the top is behaving like that, what do you expect? The coach, team manager should be hauled up.
Dravid must answer to this development.u201d ICC has taken serious view of Bangladeshu2019s aggressive celebrations: India manager POTCHEFSTROOM: Indiau2019s U- 19 cricket team manager Anil Patel said the ICC has taken a serious view of the aggressive celebrations by Bangladesh players after their World Cup triumph and will be reviewing the footage of the final gameu2019s u201c last few minutesu201d here.
Some Bangladeshi players got carried away while celebrating their historic three- wicket win over India in the final here on Sunday. u201c We donu2019t know what actually happened,u201d Patel told ESPNCricinfo on Sunday.
u201c Everybody was in a shock, absolutely, but we donu2019t know what happened exactly. The ICC officials are going to watch the footage of the last few minutes and they are going to let us know,u201d he said.
PTI Bishan Singh Bedi u2018 Disgusting and disgracefulu2019 Ex- skipper Bishan Singh Bedi slams poor behaviour by Team India during U- 19 final v Bangladesh India players indulge in a wild celebration after dismissing a Bangladeshu2019s player at Potchefstroom on Sunday.
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