{"id":13389,"date":"2016-04-11T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13389"},"modified":"2016-04-11T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T10:54:12","slug":"moeen-ali-detained-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/11\/moeen-ali-detained-at-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Moeen Ali Detained at Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

England Spinner, Moeen Ali, took to the Twittersphere to express his outrage at being detained at Birmingham Airport for 40 minutes by Border Force officials on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 28 \u2013 year- old cricket personality had been returning from England\u2019s runner-up showing at World Twenty20 in time for the opening game of the 2016 County Championship, when he was stopped.<\/p>\n

The Birmingham \u2013 born sports star branded his treatment a \u201cjoke,\u201d adding that such incidents have never occurred when he travelled with the team in official uniform.<\/p>\n

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He wrote: \u201cHave never been stopped at the airport when travelling with a team in uniform, but travel alone and get stopped for 40 minutes!! Joke.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He later tweeted: \u201cBirmingham Airport!! Hard times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Citizen Khan\u2019 star and local Brummie Adil Ray, lent his support to the cricketer adding: \u201cIt\u2019s a joke Mo. I get stopped all the time now. \u201cEven the eye thing on my passport mysteriously stopped working.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"adil<\/a><\/p>\n

Fellow cricketer, Owais Shah added: \u201cyour beard might have something to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to enquiries about the incident, Birmingham Airport took to twitter, explaining that Ali had been stopped for not declaring that he had exceeded his duty free allowance.<\/p>\n

To which the player responded: \u201cApparently can\u2019t buy gifts for the family that\u2019s more then \u00a3390.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England Spinner, Moeen Ali, took to the Twittersphere to express his outrage at being detained at Birmingham Airport for 40 minutes by Border Force officials on Saturday. The 28 \u2013 year- old cricket personality had been returning from England\u2019s runner-up showing at World Twenty20 in time for the opening game of the 2016 County Championship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-sport","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}