Dubai: In an unusual regulation, individual presenters interviewed Pakistani captain Salman Ali Agha and his Indian counterpart Suryakumar Yadav after the Worp at the ACC Men’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 final.
The Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav was interviewed by Ravi Shastri, while Pakistani captain Salman Ali Agha spoke with Waqar Younis.
This followed on India’s insisting that their captain would only be interviewed by an Indian presenter – not a neutral, as initially offered by the organizers. Consequently, Pakistan also let his captain interviewed by a Pakistani presenter.
The same arrangement will take place for the presentations after the competition, where every captain will only be confronted with a presenter of his own country.
In a repeat of earlier encounters, the Indian captain Yadav again refused a usual handshake with Pakistan-skipper Salman Agha at the Worp, so that the third stump when the arch rivals marked the horns in the high printing final of the Asia Cup.
The handshake snub comes in the background of a continuous row between the arch rivals, which emerged from the group stage collision, which attracted a lot of attention both and outside the field.
