Missing Future Cup trophies reach Mumbai

NEW DELHI: Future Cup and other medals won by Indian cricketers during their 2-1 series win over South Africa in Ireland have arrived, the Indian cricket board announced on Tuesday.

"The luggage would be delivered at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) office in Mumbai this evening. It was a normal delay and there was nothing to worry about," Board secretary Niranjan Shah said.

On their way to India from Glasgow, the luggage had been caught in a "backlog" of bags on British Airways, the airlines that was to transport the baggage via London last week.

The bags containing Team India's winner's trophy, Sachin Tendulkar's man of the series trophy, and man of the match medals won by Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir were part of the baggage booked by Percept D'Mark, a sports management company which held the ground marketing rights to the one-day series.

Their officials returned home from Glasgow and changed flights at London's Heathrow airport en route. There was a four-hour stopover at Heathrow, where they were more delays due to the terror attacks at the Glasgow airport.

British Airways officials said the bags might have been left behind during transit. The airlines had blamed the backlog on heightened security measures at Heathrow.