India National Cricket Team vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard: India beat Pakistan by five wickets in the Asia Cup 2025 final on Sunday but refused to accept the winners’ trophy from Asian Cricket Council chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who also heads the Pakistan Cricket Board and serves as the country’s interior minister. The post-match presentation was delayed for more than an hour. Naqvi was expected to hand the trophy to India and the runner-up medals to Pakistan. Instead, Bangladesh’s Aminul Islam gave the medals to Pakistan players. Naqvi only presented the runners-up cheque to Pakistan captain Salman Agha.
Kuldeep Yadav, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma received their individual awards from other dignitaries. Broadcaster Simon Doull later confirmed that India would not collect the trophy or medals. "I have been informed by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) that the Indian cricket team will not be collecting their awards tonight," he said at the ceremony. "So that does conclude the post-match presentation."
According to the e reports, the trophy was taken off the stage without being presented. The Indian players later climbed the podium themselves, with confetti falling and the victory anthem playing. They posed with the champions’ banner and celebrated with fans but did not touch the silverware. Captain Suryakumar Yadav also recreated Rohit Sharma’s famous walk from the 2024 T20 World Cup celebration. The squad applauded and joined him in marking the victory.
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Reports before the final had suggested India would reject the trophy from Naqvi. The tensions had been visible throughout the tournament. The Indian team avoided handshakes with Pakistan players in earlier games. At the toss, Suryakumar Yadav did not greet Salman Agha. Tilak Varma and Rinku Singh also skipped handshakes after the final.
The trophy was reportedly removed from the podium, and it remains unclear whether the Indian team will receive it at a later date.
India captain Suryakumar Yadav described the situation as unprecedented. "I think this is one thing which I have never seen since I started playing cricket, started following cricket, that a champion team is denied a trophy, that too a hard earned one," Suryakumar said at the press conference after the ceremony. "I feel we deserved it. I can't say anything more, I've summed it up really well. If you tell me about trophies, my trophies are sitting in the dressing room, all the 14 guys with me, the support staff, those are the real trophies throughout this journey in the Asia Cup."
He also announced he will donate all his match fees from the Asia Cup 2025 to the Indian Army. ""I personally want to give all my match fees from this tournament (from all the games) to the Indian army," Yadav said at the post-match press conference.
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India National Cricket Team vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Pakistan: 146/10 in 19.1 overs (Sahibzada Farhan 57, Fakhar Zaman 46, Kuldeep Yadav 4/30) vs India: 150/5 (Tilak Varma: 69*, Shivam Dube 33, Faheem Ashraf 3/29).
India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2025 Final Match Highlights
