Asia Cup 2025 Trophy controversy: Two cricket boards join forces with BCCI to shoot a letter to ACC's Mohsin Naqvi over handing over cup to India

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have joined forces with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to send a letter to the Asian Cricket Board (ACC) president Mohsin Naqvi, who is also Pakistan's interior minister, over handing over the Trophy to the winners, India.

BCCI stance for Asia Cup Trophy

Sports Tak understands that BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla, alongside 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, where Naqvi insisted that the BCCI representative collect the trophy from him at the body's headquarters in Dubai and the Indian Board rejected his stance. The Indian Cricket Board will bring this matter up in an ICC meeting next month.

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"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 told Sports Tak.

"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," he added.

Why did India travel back without the Asia Cup 2025 trophy?

Suryakumar Yadav-led India travelled back from Dubai without the trophy because they refused to accept it from Mohsin Naqvi, the ACC president, who is also an interior minister of Pakistan. India's stance came in protest of the Pahalgam terror attack that occurred earlier in 2025. After India's decision, Naqvi, who was there at the venue, ran away with the trophy.

India vs Pakistan clashes in Asia Cup 2025

India and Pakistan clashed three times in the continental tournament, first in the group stage, then in the Super Four, and finally in the title decider. The Men in Blue emerged victorious in all three encounters, winning the tournament without suffering a single defeat.