{"id":19636,"date":"2026-09-13T23:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:51:04","slug":"indian-womens-team-refuses-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/09\/13\/indian-womens-team-refuses-asia-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian women\u2019s team refuses Asia Cup trophy from Mohsin Naqvi amid fresh controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Indian women\u2019s team refuses Asia Cup trophy from Mohsin Naqvi amid fresh controversy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>DUBAI: The Indian women\u2019s cricket team reportedly refused to receive the Asia Cup 2026 trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi after defeating Sri Lanka in the final, triggering a fresh controversy over the intersection of cricket and politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/@ACCMedia1\">ACC<\/a> sources, the trophy presentation ceremony had been fully finalised and the championship trophy was available for the victorious Indian team. However, the Indian players chose not to receive the trophy from Naqvi.<\/p>\n<p>The development has sparked another dispute surrounding the presentation of an Asia Cup trophy to an Indian team in the presence of the ACC president.<\/p>\n<p>ACC sources criticised the decision, saying that \u201ccricket once again has been overshadowed by politics\u201d and describing the move as contrary to the spirit of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said Sunday\u2019s incident was the second such episode involving an Indian team within a year.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the trophy remains available for the Indian team and stressed that the ACC\u2019s position on the matter had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trophy is available to the winning Indian team,\u201d the sources said, adding that the trophy previously won by India was also still available and was only awaiting collection.<\/p>\n<p>The sources further maintained that Naqvi had not changed his position and continued to stand by his earlier stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy comes after India produced a dominant performance in the final, defeating defending champions Sri Lanka by 72 runs to claim the ACC Women\u2019s Asia Cup 2026 title.<\/p>\n<p>India posted a formidable total before restricting Sri Lanka to secure a comprehensive victory and lift the continental title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian women\u2019s team refuses Asia Cup trophy from Mohsin Naqvi amid fresh controversy DUBAI: The Indian women\u2019s cricket team reportedly refused to receive the Asia Cup 2026 trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi after defeating Sri Lanka in the final, triggering a fresh controversy over the intersection of cricket and politics. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2305],"tags":[4072,4070,4071],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-asia-cup-2026-trophy","tag-asian-cricket-council","tag-mohsin-naqvi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19638,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions\/19638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}