{"id":789700,"date":"2026-10-02T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789700\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:12:09","slug":"mohsin-naqvi-not-to-attend-the-asian-games-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789700\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohsin Naqvi not to attend the Asian Games final\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohsin Naqvi, President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), will not be visiting Japan for the Asian Games. The confirmation comes ahead of the men\u2019s gold-medal match, scheduled to be played between India and Pakistan at Aichi-Nagoya 2026 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cACC president Mr Mohsin Naqvi will miss Finals Day at Aichi-Nagoya 2026,\u201d the ACC said in a statement on Friday. \u201cBut he sends his very best wishes to all four teams ahead of the Gold and Bronze Medal matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are slated to meet in the bronze-medal play-off before the big finale.<\/p>\n

\u201cWishing all participants the very best ahead of the Gold and Bronze Medal matches at the Asian Games 2026. Commitments will keep me away from Nagoya, but I will be looking forward to some thrilling action,\u201d Naqvi, who’s also the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), was quoted as saying in an ACC post.<\/p>\n

As Cricbuzz reported on September 19<\/a>, the recent Women\u2019s Asian Cup controversy, after the Indian women team declined to take trophy from him, was not going to be repeated in Japan. Who presents the medals is a joint decision of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and Asian Para Games Organizing Committee (AINAGOC), and the local organisers are unlikely to make a decision that could put the Indian camp in an awkward position.z<\/p>\n

With India and Japan enjoying close diplomatic relations, the Japanese authorities were unlikely to allow a situation that could create complications for the Indian team. Besides, as part of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, India played Japan in a bilateral match on September 22 \u2014 an unprecedented occasion in world cricket, considering India are the world champions while Japan are an Associate nation ranked 41st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohsin Naqvi, President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), will not be visiting Japan for the Asian Games.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[212511,1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asian-games-2026","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}