[WATCH] Suryakumar Yadav denies handshake after winning game against Pakistan in Asia Cup 2025

It was the penultimate delivery of the 16th over of the second innings when India’s captain, Suryakumar Yadav, with a massive slog sweep, went forward and sent the ball flying into the stand at the deep mid-wicket region against Sufiyan Muqeem. After the encounter ended, a very odd situation arose in the middle.

Sky hit the winning runs and took himself off the ground with his partner, Shivam Dube, into the dressing room. As is the general trend, players naturally walk over to the opposition to shake hands with them. But the Indian batters decided to ignore it as they strolled into the room.

Even all the Indian players, present at the dug-out, decided to enter the dressing room, which shows the sign of the Blue Brigade decided to show their stand against shaking hands. It was another comfortable victory for the Indian side by seven wickets with 25 balls as their captain remained unbeaten on 47 runs in 37 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes.

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Earlier during the toss, the same incident happened when Suryakumar decided not to shake hands with Salman Ali Agha after the latter won the toss and decided to bowl first. It happened due to the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, where many innocent people lost their lives. There were calls to boycott the game on social media, even though the Sports Ministry gave the green light.

The three quality spinners of the Blue Brigade, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, and Axar Patel shared a fine bowling figure of 6/60 between them in 12 overs at an economy rate of five. Apart from Shaheen Shah Afridi’s unbeaten knock of 33 runs, no Pakistan batter stood in the middle for a long period as they posted 127/9 in their allotted 20 overs.

During the chase, Abhishek Sharma took India off to a flying start with 31 runs in 13 balls at a strike rate of 238.46 before the leader clubbed 47 runs. Tilak Verma also scored 31 runs at a run-a-ball. India’s last encounter of the event will take place on September 19 against Oman in Abu Dhabi.