The Indian team, led by Suryakumar Yadav, refused to collect the Asia Cup trophy, which was scheduled to be handed over by the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and PCB chairman, Mohsin Naqvi, after their victory against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, winning the final of the tournament.

There was a standoff between the Indian side, which refused to collect the trophy from Naqvi, who refused to budge on the position to hand over the trophy to the winning side, as it was taken off the ground between the presentations.

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“This is one thing which I have never seen since I started playing cricket, since I have started following cricket, that a champion team is denied a trophy. That too is a hard-earned one; it's not like we got it easily. It was a hard-earned tournament. We were here since the 4th, played two back-to-back good games.” Suryakumar Yadav expressed during the post-match press conference.

Mohin Naqvi leaves with Asia Cup 2025 trophy after India’s refusal post victory in Asia Cup 2025 final

Tilak Verma won the Player of the Match award thanks to his fine knock of 69 runs in 53 balls at a strike rate of 130.19 with the help of three boundaries and four sixes, while Shivam Dube smashed 33 runs. Abhishek Sharma won the Player of the Tournament award with 33 runs in 22 balls at a strike rate of 150.

"If you tell me about the trophies, my trophies are sitting in the dressing room, all the 14 guys, all the support staff - those are the real trophies that I have been a big fan of throughout this journey of the Asia Cup. Those are the real trophies, the real moments.” Varma addressed.

“Getting into this team after winning the World Cup wasn't easy for any opener. But if you see, we had a plan that we wanted to play a game, you know, that we have to show intent from the first ball. So that was my plan, I worked really hard on that.” Abhishek Sharma concluded.