ICC, BCCI pass buck as Shikhar waits for under-19 WC trophy

Well, that hasn’t happened yet. Dhawan, currently in Australia under the Gavaskar-Border scholarship, told The Indian Express: ‘‘I haven’t heard from the ICC at all, leave alone receiving the trophy.’’

Former international umpire Dr Ram Babu Gupta, who travelled with the team as manager to Bangladesh said he was not aware how the award was to be given to the player ‘‘although we knew that he had been chosen for the award.’’ Dhawan, he added, hadn’t raised the issue with him.

The ICC, meanwhile, wasn’t even aware of their mistake till contacted by this paper. Spokesperson Jon Long said: ‘‘We heard for the first time (on July 13) that the Man of the Tournament trophy has not reached the player yet. We are currently in the process of investigating its whereabouts and waiting for a confirmation of where it is. And we will make sure it ends up in the player’s hands.’’

The BCCI, too, was clueless about Dhawan’s award. ‘‘We were not aware of this’’, said media manager Amrit Mathur. ‘‘But we will definitely get in touch with the ICC at the earliest and find out. It is not usual for this to happen, but there might have been a reason.’’

To earn the trophy — a 6.5-inch silver replica of the main trophy, worth 2,500 pounds — Dhawan aggregated 505 runs in the seven innings he played, scoring three hundreds at an average of 84.16 and a strike rate of 93.5. ‘‘It would have been the main piece in my showcase because it is my first award at such a high level’’, he said. But he might have to wait a while longer to fill the gap because of a huge bit of miscommunication between a selection of quarters.