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After sparking controversy through the presentation ceremony following the Asia Cup 2025 closing, India is taking the winner’s trophy dispute to the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC).
The Indian crew refused to gather the trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi after defeating Pakistan within the closing by 5 wickets in Dubai on Sunday.
The transfer reportedly got here on the directives of the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI); nonetheless, Naqvi — who can be the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) — remained agency that he would current the trophy because the ACC president.
BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia has now confirmed the identical to Indian media retailers.
“We decided not to take the trophy from the ACC chairman, who happens to be one of the main leaders of Pakistan,” Indian media retailers quoted Saikia as saying.
The dispute resulted in a short delay within the presentation ceremony, which noticed Pakistan gamers gathering their medals because the runners-up.
Presenter Simon Doull confirmed the conclusion of the post-match ceremony with out the profitable crew receiving the trophy.
“I have been informed by the ACC that the Indian cricket team will not be collecting their awards tonight. So that does conclude the post-match presentation,” knowledgeable Doull.
India gamers Tilak Varma, Abhishek Sharma, and Kuldeep Yadav, nonetheless, turned as much as settle for their particular person awards.
Subsequently, the organisers took the Asia Cup trophy with them, leaving the Indian crew ready to get their arms on the title trophy.
Naqvi’s insistence on presenting the trophy to the profitable crew got here regardless of the Indian crew’s current acts of dragging politics into the sport, with Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav refusing a customary handshake with Pakistan’s Salman Ali Agha of their group stage sport.
He repeated the identical of their following two video games, an act which has been condemned by pundits the world over.
The BCCI secretary has now confirmed their plans to file a grievance in opposition to Naqvi over the trophy row within the subsequent assembly of the ICC, scheduled in November.
The BCCI secretary spoke in the identical strains as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who equated the cricket victory to “Operation Sindoor”, the title given to India’s collection of strikes in Pakistan, which resulted within the martyrdom of a number of civilians.
“#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same – India wins! Congrats to our cricketers,” Modi wrote in a submit on X following the Asia Cup closing.
Adamant on bringing politics and struggle into the game, Saikia mentioned that the Indian “armed forces delivered in the border area. Now the same thing has been repeated in Dubai”.
