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Shikhar Dhawan slams Emirates Airlines for being 'unprofessional', wife, children stopped at Dubai airport

| | Dec 29, 2017, at 11:11 pm

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IBNS); Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on Friday hit out at airlines major Emirates  as it did not allow his wife and kids to catch the connecting flight from Dubai to South Africa.

Indian team is flying to Cape Town in South Africa to play the first Test against the home side from Jan 5.

Shikhar said his family was asked by the airlines to produce birth certificates and other documents for the kids.

Dhawan said they were not carrying it at that moment.

He called the behaviour of the airlines towards them as 'unprofessional'.

".Absolutely unprofessional from @emirates. Was on my way 2 SA with my fam & was told tht my wife and kids can't board the flight from Dubai to SA. Was asked to produce birth certificates & other documents fr my kids at the airport which we obviously didn't have at that moment," Dhawan tweeted.

He said: "They are now at Dubai airport waiting for the documents to arrive. Why didn't @emirates notify about such a situation when we were boarding the plane from Mumbai? One of the emirates' employee was being rude for no reason at all."

Indian captain Virat Kohli will be leading the side in South Africa.

Image: Shikhar Dhawan Instagram page

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