India vs Pakistan No Handshake: The Indian team has maintained the no handshake policy with Pakistan. The match between India and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup is being played in Colombo on 15 February. At the time of toss, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav completely ignored Salman Aga. In this match, Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl first.

Talking about men’s cricket, this is the first time that the Indian captain did not shake hands with the opposing captain. This trend has been going on since Asia Cup 2025, but this is the first time the Indian team has done this in any ICC tournament. In the press conference last evening, Captain Suryakumar was asked a question regarding the handshake. Surya said that it would be better to wait for tomorrow (February 15) for this. Now by joining hands again he has given the real answer to the question asked yesterday.

India batted first, what did Suryakumar say?

After losing the toss, the Indian team has been invited to bat first. On this, captain Suryakumar Yadav said, “We have no problem with batting first. Actually, we wanted to do the same. We have seen the results here, in the last 2 matches we have won the match by defending. So we do not want to make any changes.”

India’s playing eleven: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty and Jasprit Bumrah.

Pakistan’s playing eleven: Sam Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Aga (captain), Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Khan (wicketkeeper), Shaheen Afridi, Abrar Ahmed and Usman Tariq.

Abhishek Sharma has returned to the playing eleven after missing the last match. Considering the conditions, Team India has kept an additional spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the final-11 in place of Arshdeep Singh.

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An important match is being played between India and Pakistan today in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Australia, Afghanistan and England have confirmed their places in the semi-finals, now India and Pakistan are in the race for the fourth spot. Pakistan captain Farhan Yusuf has won the toss and decided to bowl first.

If Team India, captained by Ayush Mhatre, defeats Pakistan today, then it will come at number-1 in the points table of Group 2 of Super-6. In this situation, India vs Afghanistan match will be held in the semi-finals of Under-19 World Cup. The second semi-final will be between England and Australia.

However, even if Team India does not lose by a big margin, it will reach the semi-finals but then the team will have to face Australia in the semi-finals.

Ayush Mhatre did not shake hands with Pakistani captain

‘No handshake’ continued in this match of Under-19 World Cup also. Indian captain Ayush Mhatre did not shake hands with Pakistani captain Farhan Yusuf during the toss. Earlier, when the teams faced each other in the Under-19 Asia Cup, the same thing had happened.

‘No handshake’ started from the international match, when Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav did not shake hands with the Pakistani captain during the Asia Cup 2025. In that edition, the teams faced each other three times, but there was no handshake between the two all three times. Even after the match, Indian players did not shake hands with Pakistani players. Actually this was a way of protesting against the Pahalgam attack.

How can Pakistan reach the semi-finals?

Of course, Pakistan team can reach the semi-finals of Under-19 World Cup, but it is very difficult. Team India is batting first, in such a situation Pakistan team should stop the Indian team within 250. Even then Pakistan would need to achieve the target of 250 in 25 overs.

India’s Under-19 team also did not shake hands with Pakistan players. Both the teams faced each other today in the Under-19 Asia Cup, in which India registered a spectacular victory by 90 runs. Batting first, India had scored 240 runs. While chasing the target, the entire Pakistan team collapsed for 150 runs. Even on the toss, Ayush Mhatre did not shake hands with the Pakistan captain.

Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, India did not shake hands with Pakistan players in the Asia Cup held this year. Surya did not shake hands even at the toss, nor did other players shake hands with Pakistan after the match was over. There was a lot of controversy on this also. India and Pakistan faced each other thrice in the Asia Cup, including the final, all three times India’s ‘no handshake’ policy continued, the Under-19 team also followed the same path.

Indian players did not shake hands with Pakistan

In the Under-19 Asia Cup, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first. After the toss, Indian captain Ayush Mhatre ignored Pakistani captain Farhan Yusuf. Even after the match was over, Indian players did not shake hands with Pakistani players.

A report claimed that before this match the ICC had requested India to give up the no handshake policy. While making this demand, ICC had also made it clear that the final decision will be of BCCI, if it wants to continue it then it will have to inform the match referee in advance.

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— AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) December 14, 2025

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Batting first, India had scored 240 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi could score only 5 runs today. Aaron Varghese played a brilliant inning of 85 runs, Kanishk Chauhan played an important inning of 46 runs. Kanishk also performed brilliantly in bowling, taking 3 wickets for 33 runs in 10 overs. The entire Pakistan team collapsed for 150 runs. India won this match by 90 runs.

After the Asia Cup 2025, the ‘No Handshek controversy’ continues in the Women’s World Cup 2025. Today India vs Pakistan World Cup match (Ind vs Pak live) is being played in Colombo, in which Pakistan won the toss and chose bowling first. Actually, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Pak captain Fatima Sana did not join hands during the toss. BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia had already said that there would be no guarantee that the players of both teams will join hands at the time and after the match in the World Cup match.

The Pakistani captain went straight to the dugout after talking to the toss presenter. At the same time, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur also showed no interest in joining hands with Fatima Sana. In the Asia Cup 2025, 3 matches were played between India and Pakistan. In all three matches, Suryakumar Yadav did not join hands with Pakistani captain Salman Aga at the time of the toss. At the same time, even after the match, Team India ignored Pak players completely. Looking at the World Cup tournament, India has so far registered a win, while the Pak team is coming after losing their first match.

At the time of the toss, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur told that the team is coming to play well before the World Cup. However, Amanjot Kaur is not playing in the team, who scored a half -century against Sri Lanka in the last match. Amanjot is out of playing XI due to ill health. Renuka Thakur has been replaced by her in the playing XI.

The handshake controversy in the Asia Cup later took the form of ‘Trophy controversy’. After winning the final, Team India refused to take the trophy from Mohsin Naqvi’s hands, after which the Naqvi trophy went out of the field with him.

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Handshake rules in cricket: A major controversy has arisen in the Asia Cup 2025. In the match of India and Pakistan, the players of Team India did not join hands with Pakistani players after the match. After this, the Pakistan Cricket Board called it a violation of the rules. In this case, now the statement of a big officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has come out, which has said that there is no rule to join hands after the match in cricket, it is only for better interaction between two teams.

‘India will not join hands’

The Pakistan Cricket Board not joining the hand of Indian players so much that the board lodged a complaint with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). But BCCI officials have clearly stated from their statement that Indian players have not done anything wrong.

The BCCI official said in a conversation with PTI that ‘If you read the rule book, then there is no rule of joining hands with the opposition team. This is only a source of conversation, which is followed all over the world, but this is not a rule ‘. The BCCI official further said that ‘if this is not a rule, then the Indian cricket team cannot be forced to join hands with the opposition team, even when you do not have better relations with that country’.

The BCCI official said that there is no rule that tells the players to forcefully join hands after the match. Along with this, it was said by the BCCI that due to political tension between India and Pakistan, there is no point that the players of the Indian team should go and join hands with Pakistani players.

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Jay shah strict action against Pakistan: The match between India and Pakistan came to an end on September 10, but the No Handshake controversy broke out between the two teams that day has increased even more. After the India-Pakistan match, Indian players did not join hands with Pakistani players. At the same time, during the toss, Team India captain Suryakumar Yadav neither shook hands with Pakistan’s Captain Salman Ali Aga nor looked at him. Now this dispute is going from the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to the International Cricket Council and now a new twist has come in this matter.

Jai Shah will take tough action

According to information received by the Times of India from a source of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), ‘PCB can call back its team from Asia Cup. If Pakistan does this, then ICC chairperson Jai Shah can impose many restrictions on PCB. Along with this, a strong penalty can also be imposed, which will not be able to withstand the Pakistan Cricket Board ‘. If ICC chairperson Jai Shah takes any big action against Pakistan, then Pakistan can pull back its step.

Mohsin Naqvi’s statement created panic

According to information received by Times of India from a source of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), PCB can call back its team from Asia Cup. If Pakistan does this, then ICC chairperson Jai Shah can impose many restrictions on PCB. Along with this, a strong penalty can also be imposed, which will not be able to withstand the Pakistan Cricket Board.

This big action is being revealed on the Pakistan Cricket Board when the Head and PCB President of the Asian Cricket Council, Mohsin Naqvi, posted on social media and wrote that there is nothing more than the honor and prestige of the country for me. The PCB lodged a complaint against the match referee Andrew Pycroft, who rescued the essential handshek between Salman Ali Aga and Suryakumar Yadav during the toss.

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