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After sparking controversy during the presentation ceremony following the Asia Cup 2025 final, India is taking the winner’s trophy dispute to the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The Indian team refused to collect the trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi after defeating Pakistan in the final by five wickets in Dubai on Sunday.

The move reportedly came on the directives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI); however, Naqvi — who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) — remained firm that he would present the trophy as the ACC president.

BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia has now confirmed the same to Indian media outlets.

“We decided not to take the trophy from the ACC chairman, who happens to be one of the main leaders of Pakistan,” Indian media outlets quoted Saikia as saying.

The dispute resulted in a brief delay in the presentation ceremony, which saw Pakistan players collecting their medals as the runners-up.

Presenter Simon Doull confirmed the conclusion of the post-match ceremony without the winning team receiving the trophy.

“I have been informed by the ACC that the Indian cricket team will not be collecting their awards tonight. So that does conclude the post-match presentation,” informed Doull.

India players Tilak Varma, Abhishek Sharma, and Kuldeep Yadav, however, turned up to accept their individual awards.

Subsequently, the organisers took the Asia Cup trophy with them, leaving the Indian team waiting to get their hands on the title trophy.

Naqvi’s insistence on presenting the trophy to the winning team came despite the Indian team’s recent acts of dragging politics into the game, with Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav refusing a customary handshake with Pakistan’s Salman Ali Agha in their group stage game.

He repeated the same in their following two games, an act which has been condemned by pundits across the world.

The BCCI secretary has now confirmed their plans to file a complaint against Naqvi over the trophy row in the next meeting of the ICC, scheduled in November.

The BCCI secretary spoke in the same lines as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who equated the cricket victory to “Operation Sindoor”, the name given to India’s series of strikes in Pakistan, which resulted in the martyrdom of several civilians.

“#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same – India wins! Congrats to our cricketers,” Modi wrote in a post on X following the Asia Cup final.

Adamant on bringing politics and war into the sport, Saikia said that the Indian “armed forces delivered in the border area. Now the same thing has been repeated in Dubai”.

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have just hit a roadblock with an ‘incredibly hard’ time overwhelming them, an expert fears.

The expert in question is former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond.

She spoke to The Mirror about everything and said, “As for [Princesses] Beatrice and Eugenie, anyone with a heart must surely feel sorry for them.”

Because “It seems they have had to witness their parents’ public humiliation time and again. And that must be incredibly hard when you love someone.”

She also didn’t end there and instead added a few loving anecdotes about the Duchess of York as a mother and said, “There’s no doubt that Sarah has been a brilliant mother to her girls, and they will protect her and love her through thick and thin. And that’s just as well, because this really is worse than anything Sarah has been through before. And I fear there is more to come.”

For those unversed, the fallout relates to her leaked email correspondence with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The email contents released by the Mail on Sunday show her apologizing to the fancier. Later on her spokesperson claimed she had to apologize because of ongoing threats of lawsuits.

The actual email is as follows;

“I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. And I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that.”

“You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family. I am apologising to you today for not replying to your email or reaching out to you. I was bedridden with fear. I was paralysed.”

“I was advised, in no uncertain terms, to have nothing to do with you and to not speak or email you. And if I did – I would cause more problems to you, the Duke and myself. I was broken and lost.”

“So please understand. I didn’t want to hurt Andrew one more time. I was in overriding fear. I am sorry.”

As a result she’s since been kicked off three charities almost, the Teenage Cancer Trust, Children’s Literacy Charity, The National Foundation For Retired Service Animals and the British Heart Foundation.

Prince Andrew may be considering writing a tell-all memoir if tensions within the royal family continue to escalate, a royal expert has warned.

Amid ongoing scandal of his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson over the emails she sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it is expected the Duke of York could release a memoir.

Andrew has been increasingly sidelined from public royal life and has been facing calls to be banned from major events.

More recently, the “disgraced” Duke was snubbed by Prince William at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral.

According to royal commentator Richard Kay, moments like these could push the Duke of York to a breaking point and he may follow in Prince Harry’s footsteps.

In a piece for Daily Mail, Kay claimed that Andrew knows secrets about the royal family which would be more damaging for the monarchy than Harry’s autobiography, Spare, if exposed.

“If he is pushed too far, how might Andrew react?” the expert wrote in the article.

“Would he follow his nephew’s lead and write a memoir which could, potentially, be even more devastating for the royals than Prince Harry’s book?”