No captains’ handshakes came about forward of India’s sport with Pakistan within the Girls’s World Cup, in step with the latest matches between the boys’s sides.
India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana didn’t interact on the toss in Colombo, at which Pakistan put their opponents in to bat.
The shortage of handshakes stems from the political battle between the 2 nations earlier this 12 months following a lethal militant assault on vacationers in India-administered Kashmir.
India are official hosts of the Girls’s World Cup however Pakistan are enjoying all of their video games in Sri Lanka as the 2 groups solely face one another at impartial venues.
That coverage was in place lengthy earlier than this 12 months’s battle resulting from ongoing tensions.
India received their opening match of the World Cup, beating Sri Lanka by 59 runs on DLS in Guwahati, whereas Pakistan slipped to a seven-wicket defeat to Bangladesh in Colombo.
What occurred with India and Pakistan males at Asia Cup?
In the course of the Asia Cup final month, India males’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav didn’t shake palms with Pakistan skipper Salman Agha in any of the three contests between the groups, together with the ultimate that India received by 5 wickets in Dubai.
Suryakumar mentioned after India’s first Asia Cup sport towards Pakistan that he and his staff had been aligned with Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) and authorities directions that gamers wouldn’t shake palms with Pakistan gamers.
Males’s captains Suryakumar Yadav (India) and Salman Agha (proper) didn’t shake palms on the Asia Cup
The gamers didn’t shake palms after any of the matches, whereas India didn’t settle for the winners’ trophy from Asian Cricket Council president Mohsin Naqvi, who can be the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistan’s Inside Minister.
As a substitute, India lifted an ‘imaginary’ trophy earlier than posing for a staff photoshoot.
India gamers mimic holding up a trophy as they have a good time their 2025 Asia Cup win over Pakistan
After the perimeters’ preliminary assembly on September 14, Pakistan protested towards match referee Andy Pycroft for condoning what they perceived as unsportsmanlike India behaviour relating to the absence of handshakes.
There was an hour’s delay forward of Pakistan’s subsequent fixture versus UAE due to the fallout, with Salman’s facet finally opting to play after saying Pycroft had apologised.
Former Zimbabwe worldwide Pycroft stood as match referee within the second India vs Pakistan encounter on September 21 however didn’t shake palms with Salman.
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