India’s women’s team’s decision not to receive the trophy from Mohsin Naqvi was a show of solidarity with the men’s team.
And our whole situation, since the April 2025 Pahalgam incident, changed after that. Our whole planning is geared towards the 2026 ICC T20 World Cup. “Our men’s team won the Asia Cup a year and a half ago. We have won all our matches in a one-sided manner.
Saikia told IANS hours after India beat Sri Lanka in Sunday’s final. That’s just a normal tradition—whenever anyone comes, we meet and talk with everyone,” Saikia said. He also said his interaction with Naqvi was not centred on the trophy. Saikia had presented the fielding medal after the game and said the conversation around that was about India’s next assignment.
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… “It doesn’t diminish the performances of our team. Women’s cricket has been growing so well in India and there’s no bigger evidence of that than this. The happiest part of this tournament is how India has left everyone else behind and surged so far ahead. “It’s not as if we wouldn’t meet anyone. I was sitting outside in the Royal Box seats right from the toss until the end of the game. Having sat there, I remained in that same place throughout the match. Everyone who came met me during the match; someone sat next to me, then Shukla came and sat with me. The person you mentioned also came and sat alongside Deputy Chairman Khalid (Khalid Al Zarooni) sahib.
This time, India had completed a comfortable 72-run victory over Sri Lanka to win a record-extending eighth Women’s Asia Cup title.
NEW DELHI: India’s women’s cricket team’s decision not to receive the Women’s Asia Cup trophy from Asian Cricket Council president Mohsin Naqvi was a show of solidarity with the men’s team, which took the same position after winning the Asia Cup last year, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said. The Women’s team has expressed solidarity with the decision taken by the men’s team last year,” Saikia said. Saikia said the decision did not take away from the team’s performance.
“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. Harmanpreet Kaur and her teammates celebrated on the field, but the Indian side did not collect the trophy from Naqvi during the presentation.