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Pakistan (146/9) secure a 41-run victory against UAE (105) and qualify for the Super Four of the Asia Cup 2025

jnaveen1980 said:
It is not the responsibility of referee to monitor handshakes. It is totally voluntary. Not mandatory. PCB should not soft-target referee here as he is not the one made that decision on behalf of Indian team
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that must be what ICC been communicating to Pakistani officials.
 
Pakhs said:
Rizwan did not refuse to shake hands with anyone, India could have given a similar statement to say the victory was dedicated to the people affected etc which is fine. You can still dedicate victories and not make it political. But not shaking hands is despicable.
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Not only Rizwan... in 2007 t20 WC final when India beat Pakistan, Shoaib Malik said at post match presentation "today we lost final to India, we apologise to all Muslims in the world. At that time, Irfan payhan's parents were very angry on shoaib
 
Rana said:
Surely the reff has authority to just call the game before a ball delivered.
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OK but if Pycroft is still the match referee what did the 1 hour delay achieve for Naqvi/PCB , have they at least been given assurances that Pycroft won't officiate on Sunday ?
 
If Pycroft remains, icc must have threatened pcb with financial implications to the their line.nothing else after this much drama .
 
Vikram1989 said:
If Pycroft remains, icc must have threatened pcb with financial implications to the their line.nothing else after this much drama .
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ICC just needs to say, it was all India's doing, Pycroft did not instruct them not to handshake. He probably just said to Agha that if you don't handshake this is fine by me on this occasion, we will not blame you.
 
Hope PCB learns a lesson about what the role of a referee is and doesn't try to pull off stunts like this. They have better things to worry about like restructuring your domestic set up and try to become a force again. Hardly pak fans follow pakistan cricket these days .
 
Any way this is presented, it's hugely embarrassing for the PCB and Pakistan cricket. It's shown they have no power or authority in international cricket.
 
Shaka81 said:
Any way this is presented, it's hugely embarrassing for the PCB and Pakistan cricket. It's shown they have no power or authority in international cricket.
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You needed this episode to know this? cricket is run by only 3 countries, with India almost all of the financial muscle, 5 year old child knows this.
 
PCB = JOKE

They don't know how to handle crisis. Why did they cancel Salman Press conference after india game. He should have gone and said some **** politics talk too to counter this joker Surya.
 
PCB are a bunch of clowns.

What is Pycroft's fault? They are going after him because they can't do anything to India.

All this drama because of no handshake. You seriously couldn't make this up. :ROFLMAO:
 
If getting humiliated is an art Pakistan is the Picasso of it..🤣🤣🤣ICC should cut the expected no of overs delayed by Pakistan and only make them play remaining overs..they have created unnecessary burden on UAE players for the fault of theirs..
 
match referee mingled with india that was not gentlemanly but to boycott match over this is not good. Think of public as well. We want to see the match
 
iRfaN_LA said:
PCB = JOKE

They don't know how to handle crisis. Why did they cancel Salman Press conference after india game. He should have gone and said some **** politics talk too to counter this joker Surya.
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Exactly. This should have been the course of action but Naqvi thought he could bully ICC like the way he does in Pakistan.

One can understand if he took a moral stance against Surya's antics although even that would have been over reaction but going after match referee is plain stupid.
 
Pakhs said:
You needed this episode to know this? cricket is run by only 3 countries, with India almost all of the financial muscle, 5 year old child knows this.
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I certainly didn't need to understand this but clearly the PCB needed this reaffirmation since they pulled this stunt without any self awareness. You would hope they learn from this and don't make a fool of themselves again.
 
PCB has managed to do what BCCI could not do - embarrass itself thoroughly. Now suddenly the narrative has shifted from the handshake to PCB failing to hold ICC at ransom.
 
kingusama92 said:
They're treating this like it's the 2006 Darrell Hair saga.

Just move on.

When and if you cross paths with india in this tournament, you go all out to beat them. Winning is always the best response in situations like these where you feel disrespected.
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No, you deal with disrespect immediately.
 
kingusama92 said:
They're treating this like it's the 2006 Darrell Hair saga.

Just move on.

When and if you cross paths with india in this tournament, you go all out to beat them. Winning is always the best response in situations like these where you feel disrespected.
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Mountain out of a mole hill. Naqvi is giving India what it wants by acting like this.
 
Thankfully sanity has prevail and pak are not boycotting otherwise dictator naqvi was on the way to bankrupt pcb first with costly stadium renovation now denying much needed money from acc
 
Hermoine Green said:
Nice to see that Pakistani fans dont hold back against their own Gov or Board, they lash out when they see something is wrong. I wish our neighbors may develop same trait, someday ;) They will defend anything and everything lol
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It’s established our neighbours are dumb sheep, so that’s no surprise.

We judge everything from our own point of view, not follow what our politicians and authorities say.
 
RehanG said:
man if they lose this match now.. it will be most embarrassing moment of Pak cricket ever since they started playing cricket.
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Until the next time!
It seems that the "most embarrassing moment of Pak cricket" seems to happen quite regularly now. PCB are clueless.
 
Rana said:
Alright Hermoine Granger don’t get your knickers in a twist
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Really hope we see these players play their natural game and get results tonight.

Not once have we seen a flying start since the Bangladesh series at home. Seems the plague of playing for your own place is ingrained into Pakistan cricket and there’s no running from it.
 
Naqvi is one of the worst chairman pcb has ever had.

He stopped Salman agha's presser just to throw these tantrums. Salman's presser was the only viable venue for a protest targeting surya, bcci and pycroft.

This is truly embarrassing moreso now with pycroft still in charge
 
The poor match official had nothing to do with this handshake fiasco. If the opposition didn't want to shake hands, what exactly could he have done - the game was played within the rules set up by ICC. It's not sportmenship like what India did but why go after this guy? If you really have balls, go after BCCI and go demand wtv you want with them. This whole thing makes pakistan look like bratty children. Honestly am all for no more Pakistan and India in any asia cup going forward. So much drama with these two, its freaking annoying.
 
light said:
The poor match official had nothing to do with this handshake fiasco. If the opposition didn't want to shake hands, what exactly could he have done - the game was played within the rules set up by ICC. It's not sportmenship like what India did but why go after this guy? If you really have balls, go after BCCI and go demand wtv you want with them. This whole thing makes pakistan look like bratty children. Honestly am all for no more Pakistan and India in any asia cup going forward. So much drama with these two, its freaking annoying.
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Yeah, muting mics of one of the two team isn’t exactly ethical behaviour
 
light said:
The poor match official had nothing to do with this handshake fiasco. If the opposition didn't want to shake hands, what exactly could he have done - the game was played within the rules set up by ICC. It's not sportmenship like what India did but why go after this guy? If you really have balls, go after BCCI and go demand wtv you want with them. This whole thing makes pakistan look like bratty children. Honestly am all for no more Pakistan and India in any asia cup going forward. So much drama with these two, its freaking annoying.
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if Pak ends up loosing today , That will be bonus on already a embarrassing situation for Pak cricket
 
Regarding a few Indians who are here just to troll—I even saw some posts in the Handshake thread.


To be honest, I actually feel pity because you guys are celebrating a small lollipop handed to you by the BCCI. At first, your entire nation was adamant about boycotting, but of course, India had no choice but to play.


When Surya met Naqvi, he faced tons of criticism and even death threats to his family on social media, so naturally, the team and the BCCI had to do some damage control.


But the reality is, the damage done during a skirmish can never be undone by such Bollywood-style tactics. And that’s a fact.


We Pakistanis should also understand this instead of showing disappointment over the handshake issue. Maybe In India, cricket and bollywood is solution of everything. Kek
 
The ICC’s match referee, Andy Pycroft, has apologized to the manager and captain of the Pakistan cricket team.

Andy Pycroft had barred the captains of India and Pakistan from shaking hands during their match.

The Pakistan Cricket Board had strongly reacted to Andy Pycroft’s actions.

Andy Pycroft termed the September 14 incident a result of miscommunication and apologized.

The ICC has expressed its willingness to conduct an inquiry into the code of conduct violation that occurred during the September 14 match.
 
Rana said:
Yeah, muting mics of one of the two team isn’t exactly ethical behaviour
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Unsure which event you're talking about here. If during a conference/interview - yes, it is unethical (again I have no idea what event we are talking about).
 
light said:
Unsure which event you're talking about here. If during a conference/interview - yes, it is unethical (again I have no idea what event we are talking about).
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Exactly

So you shouldn’t just assume PCB are making a hoo haa for no reason.
 
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