Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) stated the Indian staff is “welcome” to collect the Asia Cup trophy from him at the continental physique’s office head office in Dubai as controversy across the champions being denied the highest prize continued to rage.
In a publish on X, Mr. Naqvi rejected studies claiming that he, at the ACC AGM on Tuesday (September 30), apologised to BCCI officers for his actions at the presentation ceremony on Sunday (September 28) when he walked away with the trophy after the Indians refused to settle for it from him.
Mr. Naqvi can also be the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman and inside minister of his nation with a pronounced anti-India political place.
“As ACC President, I was ready to hand over the trophy that very day and I am still ready now. If they truly want it, they are welcome to come to the ACC office and collect it from me,” he wrote.
“Let me make it absolutely clear: I have done nothing wrong and I have never apologised to the BCCI nor will I ever do so,” he added.
Ashish Shelar and Rajeev Shukla had represented the BCCI in the ACC AGM the place they raised a robust objection over the trophy not being duly handed over to the Suryakumar Yadav-led facet which beat Pakistan in the ultimate.
Mr. Naqvi had advised the BCCI officers on Tuesday (September 30) that he was prepared to give the trophy to the Indian staff. However, no determination on that challenge was taken in the A.G.M., upsetting the BCCI high brass additional.
The BCCI will take the matter to the ICC which can have its assembly in November.
The two groups performed one another thrice in the event with India profitable every time, together with the ultimate. India maintained a ‘no handshake coverage’ with Pakistan gamers in the course of the occasion, infuriating the P.C.B..