Conflicting studies emerged on Monday concerning India’s participation in upcoming Asian Cricket Council (ACC) occasions, together with the distinguished Asia Cup 2025, after a number of media retailers claimed the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has determined to withdraw its groups in protest in opposition to the ACC’s present management by Pakistan’s Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi.
Studies of India opting out of Asia Cup and different ACC occasions
The hypothesis started after studies cited unnamed BCCI sources stating that India has communicated its choice to the ACC to withdraw from the Girls’s Rising Groups Asia Cup in Sri Lanka subsequent month and the Males’s Asia Cup scheduled for September 2025. The purported transfer was described as a response to latest escalations in Indo-Pak tensions and the ACC’s present management by a Pakistani minister. Some sources claimed this was a part of a broader technique to isolate Pakistan cricket on the worldwide stage.
Based on these studies, the BCCI’s stance was that “the Indian workforce can’t play in a event that’s organised by the ACC whose chief is a Pakistan minister. That’s the sentiment of the nation.”
The studies additional recommended that India’s withdrawal might jeopardize the Asia Cup itself, given the nation’s vital contribution to the event’s sponsorship and broadcast revenues.
BCCI Secretary responds to the rumours
Amid the swirling rumours, BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia issued a transparent assertion to the media, firmly rejecting the claims of withdrawal. “Since this morning, it has come to our discover about some information studies that the BCCI has determined to not take part within the Asia Cup and the Girls’s Rising Groups Asia Cup, each of that are ACC (Asian Cricket Council) occasions. Such information are devoid of any fact as until now. BCCI has not even mentioned or taken any such steps concerning the following ACC occasions, not to mention writing something to the ACC,” Saikia stated as quoted by TOI.
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He emphasised that the board’s present focus stays on the continuing IPL and the upcoming sequence in opposition to England for each the boys’s and ladies’s groups. “The Asia Cup matter or every other ACC occasion situation has not come up for dialogue at any degree, therefore any information or report on that’s purely speculative and imaginary. It might be stated that BCCI, as and when any dialogue on any ACC occasions takes place and any vital choice is reached, similar might be introduced via media,” Saikia added.
Whereas the BCCI’s official stance is that no choice has been made concerning withdrawal from ACC occasions, the scenario stays fluid given the continuing geopolitical tensions between India and Pakistan. Traditionally, India and Pakistan have solely confronted one another in multi-team tournaments, with bilateral sequence suspended for almost twenty years as a consequence of diplomatic tensions.
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