India vs Pakistan final match of the Asia Cup 2025
India and Pakistan are playing the final match of the Asia Cup 2025.
India has asked Pakistan’s player Mohsin Naqvi to return the trophy.In the final, India needed to recover from a difficult position, and Tilak Varma and Shivam Dube played a key role Their partnership helped India come back strongly and win the match by 5 wickets.
Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK Live Cricket Score Updates: A lot of excitement happened after India beat Pakistan by five wickets on Sunday to win the Asia Cup final.
The Indian team did not take the winner’s trophy or their personal medals during the ceremony where the awards were given out.
Why? Because the head of the Asia Cricket Council, Mohsin Naqvi, said he would give away the trophy. The Indian team did not take the trophy from him because the ACC chief, Naqvi, also holds the position of chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and is the Interior Minister of Pakistan. The ceremony was postponed for more than an hour and ended without any trophy being presented Earlier in the game, Tilak Varma and Shivam Dube played a key role by helping India come back from a difficult situation and led the team to a 5-wicket victory over Pakistan on Sunday, which gave them their 9th Asia Cup title. It wasn’t an easy job as Faheem Ashraf and Shaheen Afridi started off by quieting the Indian fans when they took Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, and Shubman Gill for very low scores during the powerplay. Besides Dube, Varma also worked closely with Sanju Samson, and their partnership helped keep the team’s scoring stable.
- Earlier, Kuldeep Yadav picked up 4 wickets and was the main bowler for India. Pakistan had started the game well, but then they had a big downfall. They lost 9 wickets for just 33 runs and ended up scoring a total of 146 runs in 19.1 overs at Dubai during the Asia Cup final At first, things went well for Pakistan as Sahibzada Farhan scored 57 and Fakhar Zaman added 46 But then, Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (who took 2 wickets for 25 runs), Varun Chakravarthy (2 wickets for 30 runs), and Axar Patel (2 wickets for 26 runs) quickly dismissed the other batters, like a hot knife cutting through butter Only Saim Ayub managed to reach double figures among the rest.
- India faced some tough news as Hardik Pandya was left out due to a minor injury, and Rinku Singh took his place instead Also, Jasprit Bumrah and Shivam Dube came back instead of Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh. Pakistan will use the same team that beat Bangladesh in their previous game This is the third time these two teams are facing each other within 15 days in the 2025 version of the tournament. In both earlier matches, India were clearly the stronger team, winning their group stage game by seven wickets and the Super 4 match by six wickets.
- Kamran Akmal, a former Pakistan cricket player, said that Pakistan should never play against India He also mentioned that the PCB should make this decision right away The Pakistan board needs to quickly state that ‘we should never play matches against India.’ Let’s see what action ICC takes What other proof do you require after this? But the BCCI official is in charge of the ICC — how can he [Jay Shah] take any action? The other boards need to get together and say we can’t see this in cricket. Sports are not played at anyone’s home. “If others don’t play them, then there won’t be any money coming in,” Akmal told ARY News. The sooner these issues are addressed, the better it is for everyone. A neutral group should be created without involving Pakistan and India Form a committee with members from Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, and let them decide on the next steps regarding everything that happened in this tournament,” Akmal said.
- After the match, Pakistan’s captain Salman Ali Agha criticized India for showing disrespect to the game. He said they didn’t shake hands and refused to accept the trophy from Mohsin Naqvi during the press conference. What happened in this tournament really let me down. They believe that not shaking hands is a way of showing disrespect towards us. No. That is a disrespect to cricket. Today also, what they did, a good team doesn’t do that. The good teams did what we did, went on their own for the photoshoot and also got the medals. Whatever they’re doing with the game, I don’t want to use strong words, but I have to say honestly that this is really disrespectful to the game, not to anyone else.
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says Agha
After the match, Pakistan’s captain Salman Ali Agha criticized India for “disrespecting the game” because they didn’t shake hands and refused to accept the trophy from Mohsin Naqvi.
What happened in this tournament is really upsetting. They believe that not shaking hands is a way of showing disrespect toward us. No. That is a disrespect to cricket. Today also, what they did, a good team doesn’t do that. The good teams did what we did, went off on their own for the photoshoot and also got the medals No matter what they’re doing with the game, I don’t want to say anything too strong, but honestly, this is really disrespectful to the game itself, not to anyone else.
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For the third Sunday in a row, the Indian cricket team defeated Pakistan at the Asia Cup This time, the match was closer than the previous two encounters as India’s chase went into the final over Tilak Varma, with an unbeaten half century, guided the Men in Blue home after the team found itself at 20/3 at one stage.
- But the drama did not end after the Indian team clinched the final The Indians refused to accept the winner’s trophy from the ACC chief, who is also an interior minister in Pakistan, Mohsin Naqvi.
Shoaib Malik says if the Indian cricket team doesn’t take the Asia Cup trophy, it will bother them a lot in the future.
The Indian team chose not to take the trophy because they were against the Asia Cricket Council (ACC) president, Mohsin Naqvi, giving it to them Naqvi is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and the country’s Interior Minister Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik has criticized the Indian cricket team for not accepting the Asia Cup trophy after they beat Pakistan by five wickets in the final on Sunday. The Indian team chose not to take the trophy because they were upset with Asia Cricket Council (ACC) president Mohsin Naqvi for giving it to them. Naqvi also serves as the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and is the country’s Interior Minister. Naqvi reportedly took the trophy with him. Malik said that the Indian team’s choice not to take the trophy will trouble them a lot. Just look at how much pressure the players had to handle to win the Asia Cup. How much heat they had to play in. They worked so hard. Why did they put in all that effort? To win the Asia Cup trophy and to win the tournament! After they’ve put in all that effort, you don’t even show up to claim the trophy,” chuckled Malik. It was a huge accomplishment, especially since the match was so tight. It’s a massive moment.”
