BCCI fires fresh warning to Mohsin Naqvi over Asia Cup trophy row, to escalate matter to ICC if not handed in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has fired a fresh warning to Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chairman Mohsin Naqvi over the Asia cup 2025 trophy row and threatened to take escalate the matter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) if the trophy is not handed to India.

After India won the Asia Cup 2025 on September 28, the Indian team management refused to take the champions' trophy from Naqvi, who also happens to be an interior minister in Pakistan. The BCCI's stand came in protest of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 which killed 26 people.

The BCCI representatives in an ACC meeting had urged Naqvi to return the trophy to the Indian players, but Naqvi refused. Naqvi, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), replied that the Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav need to collect the trophy from ACC headquarters in Dubai.

According to a India Today report, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia revealed that are awaiting a response from Naqvi and if nothing comes from his side, the matter will be taken up to the ICC officially. Saikia further stated that they will keep pursuing the matter and are going step-by-step. The report also stated that BCCI has the support of Sri Lanka and Afghanistan cricket boards over the fiasco.

"The BCCI secretary, BCCI's ACC representative Rajeev Shukla and representatives of other member boards including Sri Lanka Cricket and Afghanistan had written to the ACC president last week over handing the trophy to India," the ACC source said.

"But his response was that someone from BCCI should come to Dubai and take the trophy from him. So that matter has still not moved. BCCI has made its stance clear that it won't be receiving the trophy from him. So the matter will most likely be decided in the ICC meeting,"