8220;This trophy has been here all along8221;

DEC 29: The Cricket Board today denied media reports that the Pepsi Trophy, which India won at Nagpur after beating Zimbabwe 1-0 in the two-Test series, was left in the Indian Airlines flight.

Describing the report as false, Board8217;s Executive Secretary Sharad Diwadkar told PTI here on Friday that the trophy was taken to the hotel where the players were staying by the team8217;s Physio Arjun Singh Rana after the Indian team returned from the drawn Nagpur Test.

8220;Soon after Rana contacted the Board office, as the team was leaving for Cuttack to play in the first one-dayer against Zimbabwe, I sent one of my staffers Vikas Pandit to fetch it and keep it here,8221;he said.