The ICC Cricket World Cup esteem is seen here upon arrangement during a internal cricket joining promotional eventuality in New Delhi, in January. Customs officers during Mumbai airfield upon Thursday confiscated what they suspicion was a cricket World Cup esteem in a brawl over delinquent duty, according to Indian media.
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MUMBAI (AFP) – Customs officers during Mumbai airfield confiscated what they suspicion was a cricket World Cup esteem in a brawl over delinquent duty, according to Indian media.
An central from a sport’s ruling physique a International Cricket Council (ICC) arrived with a esteem upon Thursday upon a moody from Colombo, where it had been upon arrangement during a New Zealand-Sri Lanka semi-final.
But etiquette officers seized a china as well as bullion prize, which is valued during about $130,000, insisting which it was not free from import avocation of scarcely $50,000.
The Mumbai Mirror publication pronounced a officers offering to relinquish a price if they could get tickets for a final in between India as well as Sri Lanka, which takes place in a city upon Saturday.
“We can contend they asked for a estimable series of tickets,” a single unnamed ICC central was quoted as saying.
The every day pronounced officers were confused when they were told to keep a esteem until after a final, when a ICC would take it behind to their domicile in Dubai.
They were unknowingly which there were dual matching trophies as well as a alternative had been during Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium for a final month available a winning captain, a inform added.
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