In the year 2025, big events like Champions Trophy, World Test Championship final and Asia Cup took place. The Ashes series has also become the center of discussion in the last weeks of the year. From India vs Pakistan match in Asia Cup 2025 to Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, many controversial moments were seen. Even after the conclusion of IPL 2025, a big controversy had arisen this year. Before entering the new year, here is a look at the five biggest controversies that were seen this year.

Stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

In the final of IPL 2025, RCB won the trophy for the first time by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs. After that, a program was to be organized at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru to celebrate the team’s victory. Due to this, a large number of fans had gathered outside the stadium, but due to the huge crowd, a stampede broke out, in which 11 people lost their lives and about 30 people were injured. After that incident, till now Chinnaswamy Stadium has not got permission to organize any competitive match.

no handshake controversy

India and Pakistan came face to face three times in Asia Cup 2025. When their first clash took place on September 14, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav did not shake hands with Pakistani captain Salman Aga at the time of the toss. Even after winning the match, Team India went straight to the dressing room and did not come out to shake hands with the Pakistani players. This trend of not shaking hands continued in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 and other multilateral tournaments thereafter.

Team India refused to go to Pakistan

Champions Trophy 2025 was hosted by Pakistan, but several weeks before the start of the tournament, a question had arisen whether Team India would go to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy or not. There was a lot of uproar regarding this topic on social media. In the end, an agreement was reached between BCCI and PCB to hold Team India’s matches at neutral venues. A condition was also laid in it that the Pakistani team will not come to India in future for multilateral events to be held in India. Therefore, in recent times, matches of both the teams have been held at neutral venues.

Haris Rauf’s 6-0 and fighter jet gesture

During the Asia Cup, Haris Rauf was in the news for his 6-0 and the gesture of shooting down a fighter jet. Haris’ 6-0 gesture was pointing towards Pakistan Army’s claim in which it had shot down 6 Indian fighter jets during Operation Sindoor and not a single jet of its own was destroyed.

Mohsin Naqvi ran away with the trophy

India defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets in the final of Asia Cup 2025. But after that Team India refused to take the trophy from the hands of PCB and ACC Chairman Mohsin Naqvi. Due to this, the presentation ceremony started late by one and a half hour. In the end Naqvi did not give up his stubbornness and ran away from the field with the trophy. The Indian team has not yet received the trophy, which is still with Mohsin Naqvi.

The ‘No Handshek Controversy’ of India and Pakistan continues. In the Super-4 match, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and chose the first bowling. After this, he returned to the dressing room without joining hands with Pakistani captain Salman Aga. Captain Suryakumar did the same in the group stage match. After that PCB targeted the match referee Andy Picroft. But here captain Suryakumar is the subject of discussion. Can they be punished for not joining hands? Here you will get the answer to this question.

Will Suryakumar Yadav get punishment?

The answer to this question is no. Actually, there is no such rule in the Rule Book of the ICC, which says that it is necessary to join the hands of both the captains at the time of the toss. This is done only to maintain sportsmanship. Since there is no rule to join hands, no captain is obliged to join hands with another player. After the end of the match, it is not necessary that the players of both teams join hands. This is also done to maintain sportsmanship. There is no rule to join such a hand.

On one hand, the Indian team is constantly ignoring Pak players. On the other hand, since the ‘No Handshek controversy’ has started, Pakistani captain Salman has not come before the media to hold a press conference. A media report also revealed that Salman Aga is trying to avoid the questions related to ‘No Handshek Controversy’ citing the poor performance of the Pakistan team under his captaincy.

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Sourav Ganguly has broken the silence on the No-Handshek controversy, which is in the race for the post of President of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) .. Last Sunday Team India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets, but the Indian players went to the dressing room without joining hands with Pakistan team. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has also filed a complaint in this case, a match against the referee Andy Paiyoft and against an Indian team.

Sourav Ganguly said at an event held in Kolkata, “You should ask the captain (Suryakumar Yadav) what he did and why he did. I have no relation far and wide. I have no need to answer this question.”

No India-Pakistan collision

In this program, Sourav Ganguly said that only after the first 15 overs of the India-Pakistan match, he started changing the channel and watching football. He said, “Pakistan is not in our competition and I say this with respect. I can tell the team that there is no quality in it. The Indian team was playing without Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.”

Ganguly further said that Team India levels are very high from the rest of the Asia Cup teams. There will be a few days when Team India will get defeat, but on most occasions it will win. Ganguly said, “I was not surprised by the result of the match. I actually stopped watching the match after the first 15 overs and started changing the channel to watch the match of Manchester City and Manchester United. Because now there is no such thing as competition in India and Pakistan matches.”

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