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Our Sports Reporter
26 October 1998



How long should we wait, To cheer of Bangladesh? A million people is Paying today, To see XI of our boys playing tomorrow

``Bangladesh wins the world cup'' This may be my dream today But should not be my son's; And must not be my Grandson's!

These are the banners that some Bangladeshi cricket fans want the Bangladesh Cricket Board to hang in the gallery for the benefit of WorldTel cameras. The fans Farah Muneer, Farhana Kabir, Sifat Shahreen and Ahsan Zaheer made this extraordinary request in a letter to Ahmed Sajjadul Alam of the Media Centre of Wills International Cup. They wrote they were compelled to do so because they could not get tickets for any of the matches. Had they got the tickets, they would have hung the banners themselves to show the world-wide TV audience their aspiration for the cricket of Bangladesh, the touching letter concluded.


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