If it was the Indian cricketers who were caught up in a traffic jam in UK the
other day, their bags containing the trophies they won in Ireland have
also had to suffer a similar fate.
The team's winners' trophy, Sachin Tendulkar's man of the series, and Yuvraj
Singh's and Gautam Gambhir's man of the match medals - won after the 2-1 defeat
of South Africa in a ODI series in Belfast - have all been caught up
in a "backlog" of bags on their way to India.
British Airways, the airlines in which the bags were to arrive
via London last week, allayed fears that the medals from Indian team's rare
overseas win, have been lost.
They have said the items would soon be "reunited with the respective passengers"
at the earliest.
"The bags are not missing, they are not lost. They have
been delayed. We are bringing them back (to India) as soon as possible,"
Radhika, a British Airways spokesperson, said today.
"Even now the flights are arriving from the UK and some
bags might have already come. We are confident of clearing the entire backlog
before the end of this week," she said.
The airlines blamed the backlog on the delay in transfer of
bags due to heightened security measures at London's Heathrow airport.
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