Handshake row: ICC rejects PCB's demand to remove match referee Andy Pycroft from Asia Cup

[rangeelaraja]

 

 

 

Edited September 15, 2025 by rangeelaraja

[MechEng]

2 hours ago, IndianRenegade said:

The cries are awesome 

 

 

 

Their boycott stunt backfired n a colossal manner with the success of Asia Cup at Rajgir. Yeh bhi kar lo, hum bhi dekhte hain.

[Norman]

Did he actually say this or taken out of context?

[rangeelaraja]

7 minutes ago, Norman said:

Did he actually say this or taken out of context?

listen to what sky said in the first 40 seconds of the OP.

[Manucrick]

At least our players did this 

[Manucrick]

34 minutes ago, rangeelaraja said:

 

 

 

 

[Manucrick]

Pigkistan never fails to make us laugh

[goose]

not keen on the elaborate handshake explanation, dedication, and war chat. sky should have said he's only taking questions on the game of cricket. let the gesture speak for itself

[singhvivek141]

SKY did what he can do in his limited capacity.

 

Players arent at fault, most of them have no choice but to obey to BCCI, which is again a pvt entity and dont have any moral code of conduct. All they care about is money.

 

GOI too cant escape the blame, they have the power to stay any decision by the BCCI. Plus many of the govt politicians have their direct stakes in the state boards and BCCI.

 

Anyway, no point blaming the players...they did their best. No need to harass their family and friends on the Social Media. Thing would have been different had SKY too was found giggling with sofa face or Maulana or some other beggar scum post the game. He didnt do that and he deserves the support.

[Lone Wolf]

54 minutes ago, Manucrick said:

Pigkistan never fails to make us laugh

Now they are going after Match refree 

 

[Manucrick]

10 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Now they are going after Match refree 

 

Spirit of cricket my foot 

[EnterTheVoid]

So much rona dona from Farkystan

Well done Sky, couldn't be prouder of you

[Master_better]

37 minutes ago, EnterTheVoid said:

So much rona dona from Farkystan

Well done Sky, couldn't be prouder of you

Hope India thrashes these mf terrorists three times in this tournament with big margins

[putrevus]

What is the point in forfeiting the match.They should not have played in this tournament but once they played forfeiting is silly, it will hurt India only.

 

Players did what they felt was right thing to do.

[raki05]

6 hours ago, Gollum said:

Shouldn't shake hands with Kanglus as well. 

Unko laat marna chahiey ….

[bowl_out]

8 hours ago, Gollum said:

Feel sorry for our players. They are having to clean the mess created by GOI, BCCI. 

 

Godi media keeps shielding the govt and directs hate towards these players.

Modi and Amit Shah gave a nod to the players to go and play.

 

Modi and Amit Shah gave the instruction to not shake hands.

 

Now Pakistan has lodged a formal complaint with Jay Shah that Indian players have followed his dad's instructions.

 

 

[mishra]

Unlike rest I am clear on this.  We are not playing bilateral series. We dont visit their country in case there is a multi team tournament. Think thats maximum we can achieve.

 

Contracts of ICC and ACC is between BCCI and ICC or BCCI and ACC. There is limited that can be done on it. I personally is against any matches between India and Pakistan in any Sport in any event format. But I very well understand limitation of our heft. lets not pretend that we are all too mighty. Accept the realities.

[mishra]

7 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

Modi and Amit Shah gave a nod to the players to go and play.

 

Modi and Amit Shah gave the instruction to not shake hands.

 

Now Pakistan has lodged a formal complaint with Jay Shah that Indian players have followed his dad's instructions.

 

 

Post tournament, I Hope Jay Shah and match referee imposes a fines of USD 11 Million  per team for not shaking hands. Both PCB and BBCI have to pay. Also players full match fees to be deducted

 

Next time, It will be PCB advocating that they dont want to play India

Edited September 15, 2025 by mishra

[coffee_rules]

4 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Now they are going after Match refree 

 

I support Pakistan on this  issue. This is official humiliation. If they didn't want Pakistan in the tournament, they should not have invited, Bulake inta beizzati karana is very bad, Pakistan should officially protest and get out of the tournament , abhi ke abhi, after this humiliation. Bardaasht ki bhi hadh  hoti hai, #QuitAsiaCupPakiistan Who wants to lay in the tournament after this kind of treatment unless they are beggars and they can't choose. 

[bowl_out]

3 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Who wants to lay in the tournament after this kind of treatment unless they are beggars and they can't choose. 

Which is what Pakistan is

 

The no handshake gesture was right. There is no rulebook law to shake hands, it is just customary.

SKY and team wanted to just play the game as a professional commitment and have no other brotherhood like ties, and were well within their rights to do so. Maybe they should have just let the match referee that they were not planning to do a handshake.

 

The best course of action for Pak should be try and lose to UAE, so they can exit the tournament quietly