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Ranchi, Mar 18: A group of people on Sunday burnt cricketer M S Dhoni's effigy near his under-construction house here to protest his performance in India's opening game in the World Cup against Bangladesh.
About two dozen people gathered near the house and set alight the effigy on which Dhoni's poster had been pasted. The jeering people shouted slogans and asked the government to take back the plot of land allotted to the player. Dismissing the protest as a stray incident, superintendent of police (city) Richard Lakra said some people just shoved some bricks that were kept at the site for building the house. “The house under construction is complete upto the plinth level,” he said, adding police were keeping a watch near the site and at Dhoni's house at Mecon here. Expressing displeasure at the incident, former Bihar Ranji Trophy skipper K V P Rao said cricket was after all a game. “Fans should support the team now and Team India has a good chance to advance in the World Cup,” Rao said.
—PTI
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