03-25-2007, 04:29 AM
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Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
Such was the shock and dismay over India's performance, P Raju, a 28-year-old fan died of heart attack while watching the Indo-Lanka match in which India lost.
Meanwhile, hundreds of cricket fans in different parts of Hyderabad took out mock funeral processions of the members of the Indian cricket team. In the old city of Hyderabad, a group of cricket fans garlanded the portraits of Indian players with footwear. <b>At Nayapul area, a big portrait of the entire Indian team was put on a busy cross roads in mock state of "mourning" with the mourners burning scented sticks and putting bananas in front of the portraits as a mark of "respect for the departed"</b>. <!--emo&
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"We did not idolized these people for this day", said SA Rahman, a teenager beating the portraits with footwear. People also put their footwear on another portrait with two photos of Sachin Tendulkar.
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It's a game.
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
Such was the shock and dismay over India's performance, P Raju, a 28-year-old fan died of heart attack while watching the Indo-Lanka match in which India lost.
Meanwhile, hundreds of cricket fans in different parts of Hyderabad took out mock funeral processions of the members of the Indian cricket team. In the old city of Hyderabad, a group of cricket fans garlanded the portraits of Indian players with footwear. <b>At Nayapul area, a big portrait of the entire Indian team was put on a busy cross roads in mock state of "mourning" with the mourners burning scented sticks and putting bananas in front of the portraits as a mark of "respect for the departed"</b>. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> "We did not idolized these people for this day", said SA Rahman, a teenager beating the portraits with footwear. People also put their footwear on another portrait with two photos of Sachin Tendulkar.
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It's a game.