Pakistan's Mohsin Naqvi declines to release India's Asia Cup trophy; BCCI to take issue to ICC

The Asia Cup trophy has not been handed over to champions India, creating an ongoing dispute. The Asian Cricket Council's Pakistani head Mohsin Naqvi has declined to release it despite a new request from the BCCI, supported by Afghanistan and Sri Lanka cricket boards.A standoff continues as Naqvi insists that a BCCI representative must collect the trophy from the ACC headquarters in Dubai. The BCCI has rejected this requirement and plans to address this issue at an upcoming ICC meeting."The BCCI secretary, BCCI's ACC representative Rajeev Shukla and representatives of other member boards including Sri Lanka Cricket and Afghanistan had written to the ACC president last week over handing the trophy to India," an ACC source told PTI."But his response was that someone from BCCI should come to Dubai and take the trophy from him. So that matter has still not moved. BCCI has made its stance clear that it won't be receiving the trophy from him. So the matter will most likely be decided in the ICC meeting."Former BCCI secretary Jay Shah currently leads the ICC.The trophy remains at the ACC headquarters following an unprecedented situation at the presentation ceremony.

The Indian team declined to accept it from Naqvi, who then left with the trophy. Naqvi serves as both the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman and the country's interior minister.The Indian team chose not to shake hands with Pakistani players throughout the Asia Cup. This decision was made to honour the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack.The tournament, which lasted three weeks, featured matches between the two teams on each Sunday.