Pakistan fan praises Mohsin Naqvi
A video circulating on social media shows Asian Cricket Council president and Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi leaving the stadium after India defeated Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the final on Sunday. India had completed a dominant 72-run victory over Sri Lanka to win the Women’s Asia Cup for a record-extending eighth time. The chants were a callback to the controversy surrounding the men’s Asia Cup final in 2025. And our whole situation, since the April 2025 Pahalgam incident, changed after that.
“Our men’s team won the Asia Cup a year and a half ago.
The Women’s team has expressed solidarity with the decision taken by the men’s team last year,” Saikia told IANS. NEW DELHI: India’s record eighth Women’s Asia Cup title was followed by a trophy presentation that quickly became the biggest talking point of the final — and a video from outside the Dubai International Cricket Stadium has now added another twist to the controversy. But when the presentation began, Harmanpreet Kaur and her teammates did not collect the trophy from Naqvi. India had defeated Pakistan in Dubai, but the trophy and medal presentation was delayed by more than an hour, with visuals showing the Asia Cup trophy being taken away from the presentation area. So, after that, there was pressure on us from our citizens that we shouldn’t keep any relations with our neighboring country and not play cricket with them. But our government has a policy that we must play against every country in multinational tournaments… “But that doesn’t mean we will follow every condition laid out for us. Our military conflict is still ongoing. One of the main leaders who is working against the interests of our country; we can’t receive the trophy from him.
BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia later explained why the Indian players had refused to take the trophy from Naqvi , linking the decision to the position taken by the men’s side after last year’s Asia Cup final.