India's Tour of Bangladesh

Their last encounter at
the World Cup created a lot of controversy -- but ahead of the tour to
Bangladesh, Indian Test captain Virat Kohli on Sunday asserted that his team
holds no grudge against its opponents.
"We had issues in
the past but we have moved ahead. We are finished with the World Cup and played
a lot of cricket since then.
So I don't think there will be any remembrance or
memory of that," said Kohli referring to India's World Cup quarter-final
game against Bangladesh. (Time to Start Winning Test Matches: Virat Kohli)
"We are going there
to play and win a Test match and that's our primary focus. There won't be any
grudges or ill feelings about the opposition. It's pure and simple
professionalism," Kohli said at a media conference here.
India are scheduled to
play a one-off Test match, beginning June 10, followed by a three-match One-Day
International (ODI) series. (Eyes on Comeback Man Harbhajan Singh)
India defeated Bangladesh
by 109 runs in the Cup quarter-final. The defeat created a furore in
Bangladesh, with their cricket officials and fans expressing their dismay over
a number of umpiring decisions, which they claimed had unfairly gone against
them.
Even then ICC president
Mustafa Kamal, who hails from Bangladesh, smelt a conspiracy over "a dozen
umpiring decisions" and alleged it could have been a deliberate attempt to
throw out his country from the quadrennial event. (Bangladesh Forbid Banners
for India Tour)
The International Cricket
Council (ICC) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) rubbished
the accusations.
Subsequently, Kamal was
omitted from attending the presentation ceremony after the World Cup final with
ICC chairman, India's N. Srinivasan doing the honours. An angry Kamal stepped
down from his post thereafter, which threatened to dampen the diplomatic
relations between the two neighbouring countries.
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