The trophy dispute is still not over. (Photo- PTI)
More than a month has passed since the Asia Cup 2025 ended but the champion team India has not yet received its trophy. In the final held on September 29, Team India defeated Pakistan and won the title, but then the team refused to take the trophy from the hands of Pakistani President of Asian Cricket Council (ACC), Mohsin Naqvi. Since then, Naqvi has not handed over the trophy to Team India and now finally BCCI has raised the issue of the trophy in the ICC meeting and told everyone the reality of Naqvi’s actions.
The Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), who was missing from the last few ICC meetings, attended the meeting held at the ICC Headquarters in Dubai on Friday, 7 September. It already seemed certain that the issue of Asia Cup trophy would be raised in this meeting of the ICC Board and that is exactly what happened. Secretary Devjit Saikia, who participated as a representative of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, told all the board members present in the meeting about the shameful act of Mohsin Naqvi, how he took the trophy with him to the hotel and Team India has not received it yet.
According to the report of Cricbuzz, while other important issues were discussed in this ICC meeting, BCCI raised this issue during informal talks. The trophy dispute was not included in the agenda of this meeting, so this issue was raised informally and during this Saikia told the whole story. However, it has also been said in the report that when this dispute was being discussed, there was no heat or argument of any kind and the entire discussion took place in a calm atmosphere. However, it is believed that all the members present in the ICC Board are with the Indian Board on this issue and want Team India to get the trophy as soon as possible.
After this issue was raised, ICC headed by Jay Shah also offered its help in resolving this dispute as soon as possible. It is believed that to settle this dispute, ICC can form a panel, which will try to resolve the dispute after examining all the aspects. However, no official announcement has been made by ICC yet.