Calcutta boy Mohammed Shami crushed 90kg of rose petals along with the West Indian batting.
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)’s grand plan to bid farewell to Sachin Tendulkar by getting three aircraft to shower rose petals on him failed to take off on Friday because it hadn’t bargained for the Test ending in three days.
Officials said 90kg out of the planned 199kg of rose petals were packed and ready for the aerial felicitation, but the aircraft didn’t have permission to fly on Friday.
Trans Bharat Aviation, the company entrusted with the job, had permission for the Sachin sorties on Saturday and Sunday. “We were waiting to load the petals on our aircraft this afternoon in preparation for either tomorrow or the day after when we learnt that the match had ended,” Saket Agarwal of Trans Bharat Aviation told Metro. “It’s disappointing that we missed out on the opportunity.”
By the time it became clear that Shami was in a hurry to wrap up the Windies innings, it was too late to get the necessary permission for the aircraft to fly over Eden on Friday itself.
09/11/13 Kinsuk Basu/Telegraph
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The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)’s grand plan to bid farewell to Sachin Tendulkar by getting three aircraft to shower rose petals on him failed to take off on Friday because it hadn’t bargained for the Test ending in three days.
Officials said 90kg out of the planned 199kg of rose petals were packed and ready for the aerial felicitation, but the aircraft didn’t have permission to fly on Friday.
Trans Bharat Aviation, the company entrusted with the job, had permission for the Sachin sorties on Saturday and Sunday. “We were waiting to load the petals on our aircraft this afternoon in preparation for either tomorrow or the day after when we learnt that the match had ended,” Saket Agarwal of Trans Bharat Aviation told Metro. “It’s disappointing that we missed out on the opportunity.”
By the time it became clear that Shami was in a hurry to wrap up the Windies innings, it was too late to get the necessary permission for the aircraft to fly over Eden on Friday itself.
09/11/13 Kinsuk Basu/Telegraph
