Let us keep the focus on Naqvi for now. If you are desperate to wander off, open a fresh thread, hopefully Naqvi does not run away with that one too.
The fact is simple, Pakistan could not win the trophy in a fair contest so Naqvi decided the best plan was to simply pick it up and sprint. BCCI really should lodge a complaint, because at this rate his only silverware will be the handcuffs waiting for him.
And if he thinks the UAE will go easy, good luck to him. Their rules on theft are harsher than Shoaib Akhtar’s yorkers, one mistake and the desert heat will feel like mercy compared to the jail cell.
Too late for damage control, though. His reputation is cooked, people across India are happily chanting Trophy Chor, and that is the tag that will outlive every speech he gives. Imagine the poor fellow trying to explain to his grandchildren one day, beta I was famous once, but for lifting something that was never mine.
Truly poetic, and very sad.