Mohsin Naqvi refuses to alter his stance in Asia Cup trophy row regardless of BCCI’s warning

The impasse over the Asia Cup trophy continues because the champions India, are prone to avoid it for an extended interval. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) head, Mohsin Naqvi, who can also be the PCB Chairman, has refused to alter his stance and continues to insist on handing the trophy to the BCCI consultant. Notably, the BCCI, with the assist of Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, had written a letter to Naqvi asking him to present the trophy to India and had additionally warned him of escalating the matter.

Nevertheless, Naqvi has refused to budge and hasn’t modified his stance on the matter. “The BCCI secretary (Devajit Saikia), BCCI’s ACC consultant Rajeev Shukla and representatives of different member boards together with Sri Lanka Cricket and Afghanistan, had written to the ACC president final week over handing the trophy to India.

“However his response was that somebody from BCCI ought to come to Dubai and take the trophy from him. So, that matter has nonetheless not moved. BCCI has made its stance clear that it will not be receiving the trophy from him. So, the matter will most probably be determined within the ICC assembly,” the ACC supply mentioned.

What’s the Asia Cup trophy row?

For the unversed, India defeated Pakistan within the remaining of the Asia Cup on September 28 after which refused to gather the trophy from ACC Chief Mohsin Naqvi, who can also be the inside minister of Pakistan. Naqvi had then taken away the Asia Cup trophy with him, and since then, the drama has been occurring. It was earlier reported that the PCB Chief has apologized to the BCCI and that he has agreed to present the trophy.

However because it stands, the trophy is locked on the ACC Headquarters in Dubai and Naqvi has reportedly strictly instructed the workers to not hand it over to anybody with out his permission.

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