‘Disenchanted’ fans left fuming at Flanagan’s stubborn call<\/a><\/p>\nPakistan’s players were seen walking towards India’s dugout following the batting pair’s act but all rival players had already left and entered the team’s dressing room. <\/p>\n
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Shivam Dube (L) of India and Suryakumar Yadav (R) of India leaves the field.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
It was the first time the two nations had met since military action in April relating to an attack in Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir. India blamed Pakistan for the attack. <\/p>\n
India resisted calls to boycott the Asia Cup battle against Pakistan and confirmed that the two teams will only meet in multi-national events.<\/p>\n
In protest of the Indian players’ decision to not meet for a customary handshake, Pakistan players refused to attend the post-match presentation.<\/p>\n
It was also noted that Yadav elected not to shake hands with Pakistan captain Salman Agha at the toss. <\/p>\n
“We were ready to shake hands at the end of the game,” Pakistan’s head coach Mike Hesson said post-match.<\/p>\n
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Players of Pakistan.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
“We were disappointed that our opposition didn’t do that.<\/p>\n
“We went over [to the dugout] and they were already gone to the changing room, so that was obviously a disappointing way to finish the match.”<\/p>\n
Yadav labelled the win as a “perfect return gift to India” before going on to declare that the team “stand by with the victims and families of the terror attack.”<\/p>\n
“We want to dedicate today’s win to all our armed forces who showed a lot of bravery,” Yadav, who finished 47 not out, continued.<\/p>\n
“We are aligned with the government and Board of Control for Cricket in India.”<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s team management confirmed they had lodged a protest with match referee Andy Pycroft about the incident.<\/p>\n
“The behaviour of Indian players was against the spirit of sportsmanship,” the statement released by Pakistan’s team management said.<\/p>\n
“That is why skipper Agha was not sent to the post match ceremony.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan coach Mike Hesson was “disappointed” after India’s players chose not shake hands with his team amid lingering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-145640","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\/145640","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=145640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}