The India vs Pakistan cricketing relations are seemingly at their lowest level as a result of current no-handshake gate between the lads’s groups of the 2 nations. After the Indian males’s crew refused handshakes with their Pakistani counterparts, the ladies’s crew is ready to comply with the identical coverage.
Following the precedent from the lads’s clashes within the Asia Cup 2025, the Indian ladies’s crew will proceed the no-handshake coverage of their ODI World Cup 2025 conflict towards Pakistan, information company PTI reported.
India and Pakistan are set to satisfy one another within the Ladies’s World Cup 2025 on the R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, on October 5 in what shall be their second matches within the event collectively hosted by India and Sri Lanka.
Nevertheless, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led crew won’t be doing the handshakes or picture shoots with their Pakistani counterparts within the World Cup conflict. “The BCCI is aligned with the federal government, and there shall be no customary handshake on the toss, no picture shoot with the match referee, and no end-of-game handshakes. The coverage adopted by the lads may even be applied by the ladies,” a senior BCCI supply advised PTI on situation of anonymity.
No-handshake gate started in Asia Cup 2025
The no-handshake gate started within the Asia Cup 2025, the place India and Pakistan confronted one another 3 times within the matter of 15 days. India captain Suryakumar Yadav prevented a handshake with Pakistani counterpart Salman Ali Agha on the toss through the first conflict. The groups didn’t shake fingers after the match.
The identical pattern continued for the remainder two video games too, with India avoiding greeting the Pakistani gamers within the aftermath of the political tensions between the 2 neighbours.
In the meantime, India haven’t bought their Asia Cup trophy to date after they refused to take the silverware from Asian Cricket Council chief Mohsin Naqvi, who can also be the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman and inside minister in Pakistan. Naqvi took the trophy with him, and it has been reported that he has now handed it to the UAE Cricket Board.
India defeated Sri Lanka in opener
In the meantime, India had opened their Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025 with a win over Sri Lanka on September 30. That they had posted 269/8 and restricted Sri Lanka to 211 to win by 59 runs. Deepti Sharma gained the Participant of the Match for scoring run-a-ball 53 and taking three wickets.