No handshake again! Harmanpreet, Fatima avoid customary greeting in T20 World Cup

The no-handshake argumentation betwixt India and Pakistan continued connected Sunday arsenic India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Pakistan skipper Fatima Sana did not shingle hands astatine the flip earlier their Group A lucifer successful the ICC Women's T20 World Cup astatine Edgbaston.The signifier has been followed by Indian cricket teams since the Pahalgam panic onslaught and Operation Sindoor carried retired by the Armed Forces thereafter past year. Indian players person avoided handshakes with Pakistan players astatine the flip and aft matches since then.The attack was archetypal seen erstwhile past India men's T20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav did not shingle hands with his Pakistan counterpart during the Asia Cup successful Dubai.

Harmanpreet and Fatima had besides not exchanged handshakes during the Women's ODI World Cup lucifer successful Colombo.Speaking connected the eve of the match, Harmanpreet had said cricket remained the lone absorption for her team."I deliberation we are present for cricket, and we lone speech astir cricket, but that we don't speech astir anything.. Cricket has been our imagination from time one, and we lone sermon cricket and tomorrow's game," Harmanpreet had said erstwhile asked by the media connected the eve of India's T20 World Cup opener.

At the flip connected Sunday, Harmanpreet won and chose to bat first. As successful caller meetings betwixt the 2 sides, determination was nary handshake betwixt the captains.India made 1 notable enactment call, bringing successful Bharti Fulmali portion leaving retired Yastika Bhatia. Harmanpreet said the squad would spell into the lucifer with 3 spinners and 2 mean pacers.India entered the 12-team tourney arsenic the reigning Women's ODI World Cup champions aft winning the 2025 rubric connected location soil.

However, their caller T20I results person been mixed.The India-Pakistan clash marked some teams archetypal Group A lucifer of the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup, with the no-handshake argumentation erstwhile again drafting attraction earlier the crippled began.Teams:India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur, Bharti Fulmali, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Shreyanka PatilPakistan: Gull Feroza, Muneeba Ali(w), Ayesha Zafar, Saira Jabeen, Aliya Riaz, Natalia Pervaiz, Fatima Sana(c), Rameen Shamim, Nashra Sandhu, Tasmia Rubab, Sadia Iqbal.