Pakistan, India captains stroll previous one another throughout toss at ICC Ladies’s World Cup on October 5, 2025. — Screengrab by way of Geo Information
Pakistan and Indian ladies’s crew skippers Sunday prevented shaking fingers on the toss for his or her Ladies’s World Cup match in continuation of the handshake snub saga originating out of the lads’s Asia Cup 2025.
The shortage of handshake between Pakistan skipper Fatima Sana and India’s Harmanpreet Kaur comes after the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Devajit Saikia 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 fingers 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,” mentioned Saikia.
The handshake snub at the moment solely provides to the state of affairs which emerged after India’s controversial and extensively condemned conduct throughout the lately concluded Asia Cup 2025, the place the lads’s crew refused to shake fingers 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).
In the meantime, almost about the at the moment’s fixture relating to ladies crew’s match, it’s crucial to know that that Pakistan have by no means crushed India in ladies’s ODIs, with the 2 groups going through one another 11 occasions, the place India has emerged victorious on all events.
The match is happening from September 30 to November 2 in India and Sri Lanka, and Pakistan will play all their group-stage matches on the R Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Colombo.
If Pakistan advance to the semi-final on October 29 and the ultimate on November 2, each matches will even be held in Colombo.
On the toss at the moment, captain Fatima Sana mentioned: “We are going to bowl first because the weather is dry and the pitch looks good,” she mentioned.
“We have great confidence after the qualifiers, and hopefully, we will play good cricket. Hopefully, on this pitch, 250 would be a good total to defend”.
Lineup
Pakistan: Muneeba Ali, Sadaf Shamas, Sidra Amin, Rameen Shamim, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz (wk), Fatima Sana (c), Natalia Pervaiz, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu and Sadia Iqbal.
India: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani.
