Asia Cup trophy not awarded to champions India after they refuse to accept it from ACC chief Mohsin Naqvi

Asia Cup trophy not awarded to champions India after they refuse to accept it from ACC chief Mohsin Naqvi.

Asia Cup champions Indian group on Sunday (September 28, 2025) refused to accept the winners’ trophy from ACC chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who additionally occurs to be Pakistan’s Interior Minister and chairman of the nation’s cricket board.

As Mr. Naqvi stood on one aspect for the presentation ceremony to start, Indian gamers have been standing inside 15 yards, refusing to budge from their locations and the formalities have been being inordinately delayed.

It was learnt that Indian group administration requested who was supposed to current the winners’ trophy and ACC went right into a huddle understanding that their boss wasn’t a suitable title for the champions.

Once Mr. Naqvi took the presentation stage, Indian followers within the stands began booing collectively with chants of “Bharat Maata Ki Jai”.

Once Mr. Naqvi took the dais, he was knowledgeable that Indian group will not accept the trophy if he tries to drive himself and an official protest could be lodged. As Mr. Naqvi waited, out of the blue, somebody from organisers took the trophy contained in the dressing room.

Having not shaken palms with Pakistani gamers all through the three Asia Cup video games and in addition prevented the customary pre-toss photoshoot, the Indian group had despatched the message to ACC that it will not accept the trophy from the ACC chairman.

In one other dramatic growth, the Pakistani gamers did not emerge out of the dressing room even after an hour because the match had ended with solely their chairman stranded and embarrassed, wanting to do the honours as per continental physique’s protocol.

After almost 55 minutes, Salman Agha and his teammates emerged out and have been greeted with shouts of “Indiaaaa, Indiaaaaa”.