India’s Jemimah Rodrigues performs a shot throughout their Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 sport in opposition to Pakistan in Dubai, October 6, 2024. — ICCPakistan and India face off in Ladies’s World Cup on Oct 5.No assurance of handshake with Pakistan gamers: BCCI officialPCB chief tells gamers to precise themselves freely, says supply
KARACHI: Persevering with its coverage of politicising sports activities, Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Devajit Saikia has mentioned that the coverage about Pakistan will stay unchanged of their upcoming conflict within the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025.
In an interview with BBC, the BCCI secretary acknowledged that there was no assurance that Indian gamers will shake palms with their Pakistani counterparts throughout their upcoming sport in Colombo on October 5.
“I cannot forecast anything, but our relationship with that country (Pakistan) is the same, there is no change in the last week,” Saikia mentioned.
“India will play that match against Pakistan in Colombo, and all cricket protocols will be followed. I can only assure that whatever is in the MCC [Marylebone Cricket Club] regulations of cricket, that will be done. Whether there will be handshakes, whether there will be hugging, I cannot assure you of anything at this moment,” he added.
His feedback come within the backdrop of India’s controversial and extensively condemned conduct in the course of the lately concluded Asia Cup, the place the boys’s workforce refused to shake palms with Pakistan gamers, and made political statements throughout post-match ceremonies and press conferences.
India additionally refused to gather the winners’ trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi, who additionally serves because the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
The BCCI secretary’s remarks got here quickly after Indian sports activities journalist Boria Majumdar recommended in a social media put up that the upcoming Ladies’s World Cup fixture would carry the identical off-field tensions witnessed in the course of the current Asia Cup, the place India’s males’s workforce drew criticism for unsportsmanlike behaviour.
“The India-Pakistan game in Colombo will not be another cricket match. It will be a continuation of the Asia Cup, and the only thing that changes is the gender,” Majumdar wrote in a put up on X, hinting at attainable refusal of handshakes, heightened drama, and political undertones.
“There will be no handshakes, lots of off-field drama and heightened stakes,” the Indian journalist claimed.
Forward of the Asia Cup closing, Naqvi had informed the boys’s workforce to precise themselves freely and go away the remaining to him, the supply added.
