{"id":143400,"date":"2025-09-14T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:03:09","slug":"india-refuse-to-shake-hands-with-pakistan-after-game-video-reaction-scorecard-highlights-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143400\/","title":{"rendered":"India refuse to shake hands with Pakistan after game, video, reaction, scorecard, highlights, cricket news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s victorious captain Suryakumar Yadav defended his team\u2019s decision not to shake hands with the defeated Pakistan players, saying that it was taken in alignment with their government and cricket board.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the 2025 Asia Cup exclusively LIVE on Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>India thumped Pakistan by seven wickets in a Group A Asia Cup clash in Dubai which ended on a bitter note as Indian players headed into their dressing room without a customary handshake.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, in protest, refused to attend the post match ceremony as tensions flared in a match which was the first between the bitter rivals since May\u2019s military action.<\/p>\n<p>The cross border clashes were sparked after an attack in Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir in April which killed 26 people, with India blaming Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi resisted the calls to boycott the match and cleared the team to play Pakistan only in multi-national events.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757873113_439_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aligned with the government and Board of Control for Cricket in India,\u201d said Suryakumar after scoring 47 not out as India chased down a modest Pakistan target of 128 in 15.5 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Left-armer Kuldeep Yadav led India\u2019s spin rout with 3-18 as Pakistan were restricted to a below-par 127-9 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s head coach Mike Hesson said he was disappointed with the Indian players\u2019 refusal to shake hands.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan players greet each other after their loss. (AP Photo\/Fatima Shbair)Source: AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were ready to shake hands at the end of the game,\u201d said Hesson. \u201cWe are disappointed that the opposition did not do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went over there and they were already gone to the changing room, so that was obviously a disappointing way to finish the match.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hesson said that the decision not to send captain Salman Agha to the post match ceremony was \u201cjust in the flow of the things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team manager Naveed Cheema lodged a protest with match referee Andy Pycroft after the match,\u201d said Pakistan\u2019s team management in a statement after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe behaviour of Indian players was against the spirit of sportsmanship,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why skipper Agha was not sent to the post match ceremony.\u201d India, with two wins from two, are nearly through to the next Super Fours stage of the tournament with their final group match against Oman on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan play UAE next on Wednesday and despite the defeat to India are expected to make the next stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s victorious captain Suryakumar Yadav defended his team\u2019s decision not to shake hands with the defeated Pakistan players,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-143400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}