 "BCCI has been looking to remove PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi as ACC president since the controversial conclusion to the 2025 Asia Cup. Image credit: AP/X")
The fall out in the Asia Cup trophy controversy continues to rage on with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seeking to remove Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi from the post of Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president.
According to a report on The Times of India, the BCCI is eyeing the possibility of a no confidence vote against Naqvi, hoping to gather enough support from the other member boards. The report adds that Sri Lanka has lent its vote to India along with Malaysia and Indonesia, leaving Naqvi isolated on the matter.
Afghanistan’s vote thus will be crucial and will decide whether Naqvi remains the ACC president, a post that he has been occupying since April this year, or not.
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The 17th edition of the Asia Cup had taken place just months after a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and the subsequent military conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations, in which the Indian armed forces launched a series of precision strikes codenamed “Operation Sindoor”.
While the Men in Blue participated in the tournament and faced Pakistan on the field despite several fans and some former cricketers and politicians being against it, they refused to shake the hands of their opponents in each of their three meetings, with captain Suryakumar Yadav also ignoring his Pakistani counterpart Salman Ali Agha during the toss.
And after being crowned Asian champions for the ninth time with a five-wicket victory over Pakistan on Sunday, the Indian team refused to accept the winners’ trophy and medals from PCB chairman Naqvi , who had been in the news for posting a controversial anti-India social media post just a few days earlier.
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Pakistan Interior Minister Naqvi, however, refused to allow any other official to present India their trophy and medals, insisting that only he had the authority to do so and reportedly took the trophy to his hotel room after the final.