India Beat SA, win Future Cup, Airline loses it

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Rahul Dravid and his men would not be very pleased to know that the trophy they got for their first away series win over South Africa has been misplaced. The Future Cup, which India won by winning the 3-match ODI series in Belfast, and Sachin Tendulkar’s Man-of-the-Series award were among the 100-odd pieces of luggage that were misplaced on the Glasgow-London-Mumbai British Airways flight on July 5. It has been more than a week since, and no one, including the airline, knows where the trophy is. After the trophy was handed over to the Indian team, PDM Sports — the Percept Group’s sports marketing company, which had ground rights for the series — took charge of the main trophy, the Man of the Series and Man of the Match trophies and 12 souvenir bats (personally autographed by the Indian and South African teams). “All these were part of our baggage,†said Roland Landers, chief operating officer of PDM Sports. Landers said, he along with two colleagues, boarded BA-1475 from Glasgow to London on July 4. They changed flights at Heathrow airport and caught another British Airways flight BA 199 to reach Mumbai on July 5. “Only a dozen bags made their way through the conveyor belt,†said Saurabh Khurana, who was also on the same flight.