BCCI to lodge protest against Naqvi after Asia Cup trophy presentation fiasco

Devajit Saikia, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary, has condemned the act of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chairman Mohsin Naqvi taking the Asia Cup trophy together with him from the dais after India declined to accept it from him. Mr. Saikia additionally confirmed that the BCCI will take up the difficulty within the subsequent Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) Board assembly in November.

“We’ve got determined to not take the trophy from the ACC chairman (Naqvi) who occurs to be the one of many primary leaders of Pakistan, so we have now determined to not take it from him. However that doesn’t imply that the gentleman will take away the trophy,” Mr. Saikia stated right here moments after Suryakumar Yadav’s squad celebrated on the champions’ podium and not using a trophy.

“We got here together with the medals, so it is extremely unlucky, very unsporting and we hope that the trophy and the medals will likely be returned to India as quickly as attainable.”

The deadlock between the BCCI and Mr. Naqvi first resulted within the presentation ceremony delayed by virtually 90 minutes and ended with the presenter strolling away with the trophy as an alternative of the profitable captain.

“Within the subsequent ICC convention in Dubai within the first week of November, we’re going to lodge a really severe and really robust protest in opposition to the act of ACC chairperson.

Saying a money prize of ₹21 crore mixed to India’s squad – together with gamers and help workers – for profitable the Asia Cup, Mr. Saikia drew a parallel between the Asia Cup triumph and Operation Sindoor in Could, within the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror assaults.

“We’re very pleased with our group they usually have excellently delivered within the cricket pitch,” Mr. Saikia stated. “Our armed forces have delivered it within the border space. Now the identical factor has been repeated in Dubai. So this is a superb second, a momentous event for Indian cricket.”