{"id":20411,"date":"2025-09-29T00:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/asia-cup-india-beat-pakistan-to-retain-title-in-dubai\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:18:54","slug":"asia-cup-india-beat-pakistan-to-retain-title-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/asia-cup-india-beat-pakistan-to-retain-title-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup: India beat Pakistan to retain title in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">India beat Pakistan by five wickets in a tense final to retain the Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the third meeting between the rivals at the tournament and success for India earned them a ninth title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides again refused to shake hands &#8211; as they had in the two earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cj077pr1mn6o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">fractious encounters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The India players did not reappear for the trophy presentation and Indian cricket board (BCCI) secretary Devajit Saikia later said the players refused to accept the winner&#8217;s trophy from Asian Cricket Council president Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India captain Suryakumar Yadav said: &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing that I have never seen in my career that a champion team is denied its trophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two nations engaged in a brief military conflict in May, which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi referenced when congratulating the players on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even before that conflict, the cricket teams would only face each other at neutral venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Made to bat first, Pakistan started superbly, with Sahibzada Farhan (57) and Fakhar Zaman (46) putting together an impressive opening stand of 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They rallied to 113-1 with 44 balls left in the innings, but the collapse that followed would be dramatic and prove pivotal to the outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the help of left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav (4-30) and some poor shots, India took the remaining nine wickets for just 33 runs as a shellshocked Pakistan were bundled out for 146 with five deliveries still left in their innings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c2ej42lmx3mo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India beat Pakistan by five wickets in a tense final to retain the Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. It was the third meeting between the rivals at the tournament and success for India earned them a ninth title. Both sides again refused to shake hands &#8211; as they had in the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20413,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions\/20413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}