Bangladesh-India have been declared joint champions in SAFF U-19 Women’s Championship. Before this, the Lanka Incident took place. The scoreline was 1-1 at the scheduled time. After taking 11 shots in the tiebreaker, Sri Lankan match commissioner de Silva Jayasuriya suddenly went to the toss. Two and a half hours have been going on and on about this. In the end, India prevailed on a wintry night with the trophy in the hands of both teams, ending the match in dramatic tension. However, Bangladesh captain Afeeda Khandkar did not know that the result of the match will be decided by the luck of the toss.
Afeeda, who came from Satkhira told the media on the sidelines of the festival in the field, ‘I thought there would be a re-shot – that’s why the toss is being done. In fact, we were not told anything about this. I just went for the toss. ‘
Still, Afida is happy to be the joint champion, ‘The match is over. We became champions together. Happy with it. We did not lose any time of the match. So we are not less happy.’
Bangladesh team manager Amirul Islam Babu has been with the women’s team for a long time. He said in this context, “There is no such toss in the tournament bill.” Why do we accept the toss? Besides, we didn’t even know about the title toss.’
Byelaws and other formalities of the tournament are completed in the manager’s meeting. Babu claimed that there was no such discussion, ‘All teams have come to play according to the rules of the tournament. The title was never won by the toss.’
Speaking at the end of the match, SAFF General Secretary Anwarul Haque Helal said, ‘The kind of incident that happened is absolutely unfortunate. Nothing like this has ever happened in the past in SAFF Championship. The mistake was made by the match commissioner. He made a mistake. He may have made the decision without fully looking at the rules. As far as I know, the referee asked for play to continue, he (match commissioner) then said that’s what the regulation (coin toss) says. This mistake has caused this problem. Besides, there was no other option but to declare the two teams as joint champions.
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