The Women’s ODI World Cup started two days after the Asia Cup 2025 ended. The tournament started on 30 September, in which the women’s teams of India and Pakistan are coming face to face on 5 October. Amidst the Asia Cup controversy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided that the Indian players will not join hands with the Pak team in the Women’s World Cup. Sources say that the BCCI has sent this information to the players.

According to reports, the Indian women’s team will not join hands with Pakistani players in the World Cup match. The Indian team has been informed about this. The BCCI will fully support its players in this decision. At the time of the toss, there will be no handshuce between India and Pakistani captains Harmanpreet Kaur and Fatima Sana, neither will there be a photoshoot nor will the team join hands with Pak players after the match.

It will also be worth seeing who will be the toss presenter in the India-Pakistan World Cup match. Due to the BCCI’s ‘No Handshek’ policy, the name of a toss presenter may be approved, which does not come from India and Pakistan. A few days ago, at the time of the toss in the Asia Cup final match, Ravi Shastri did not join hands with Pakistani captain Salman Aga.

Let us tell you that India and Sri Lanka are hosting the Women’s World Cup 2025 together. But the schedule of the World Cup was prepared in such a way that India and Pakistan will play the match on the neutral venue. Therefore, in the league stage match, India and Pakistan will be played in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

India and Pakistan also clash in semi -finals or finals, so the option of neutral venue has already been kept open for their match.

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The ‘Handshek controversy’ of the Asia Cup has once again come into the discussion. In the group stage match, India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets. At the time of the toss in that match, Suryakumar Yadav did not join hands with Salman Aga, while no player of Team India joined hands with Pakistani players after the match was over. Pakistani captain Salman Aga remembers that incident well, now he has also given his response.

When the Super-4 round match was played between India and Pakistan on 21 September, no player of Team India had joined hands with the Pakistan team. The Indian team can do something similar in the final match. Salman Aga has reacted to this and said that such actions set a bad example for the sportsmanship.

Pakistani captain Salman Aga said, “As far as joining hands, I have been playing professional cricket since 2007. I have never seen when 2 team players have not shook hands. My father has also been a big cricket fan and I have heard many stories related to cricket from him. He never mentioned when 2 teams have not shook hands.

Inshaallah we will win …

Despite the previous controversy of the tournament, Salman Aga’s entire focus is on winning the final match. However, India also dusted Pakistan in group stage and Super-4 rounds. Salman Aga said, “We do not pay attention to what is not under our control. We ignore the talk of the media and outside. Our goal is to win the Asia Cup.”

He further said, “We have come here to play good cricket and will try to win the final tomorrow. Inshallah will see us winning. If we are able to give our best in the entire 40 overs, then we can beat any team.”

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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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After the India-Pakistan match, the No-Handshek controversy is being hot. Earlier it was reported that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has complained to Team India to ACC in this matter. The PCB has targeted the match referee Andy Picroft directly, demanding that Andy Picroft be removed from the Asia Cup match referee penal list. If this is not done, the Pakistan Board has threatened to withdraw the name from the Asia Cup.

PCB alleged that the match referee Andy Picroft had asked the two captains not to join hands at the time of the toss using his power. At the same time, Cricbuj reported that Pakistan has also threatened to boycott the next match.

Pakistan complained

PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi wrote in a social media post on Monday, “The PCB has complained to the match referee to the International Cricket Council, which has violated the game sense in reverse from the MCC rules. The board demands the match referee to be dismissed with immediate effect.”

PCB threatens

According to Cricbuzz, if the match referee Andy Picroft is not removed from the Asia Cup referee panel, Pakistan has threatened to boycott the match against UAE on 17 September. At the same time, a Pakistani news agency had earlier reported that if Andy Picroft is not removed, the Pak team can withdraw the name from the remaining matches of the Asia Cup. It was also claimed that PCB is considering taking huge action on the handshake controversy.

Paycroft is on target because he has not been able to take action on PCB’s complaint. He has been accused of taking decisions in India-Pakistan match beyond sportsmanship.