Asia Cup trophy drama | Sanju breaks silence: 'We don't have anything'

Wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson offered a light-hearted instrumentality connected the bizarre Asia Cup trophy contention that followed India’s melodramatic triumph implicit Pakistan successful Dubai. Ten days aft India’s ninth Asia Cup triumph, the trophy inactive hasn’t reached them, due to the fact that Asian Cricket Council (ACC) main Mohsin Naqvi, who besides serves arsenic Pakistan’s Interior Minister, near the stadium with the silverware amid chaos astatine the post-match presentation.

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The final, which India won aft a tense finish, descended into disorder erstwhile the players refused to judge the trophy from Naqvi. Moments later, an authoritative removed the cupful from its basal and carried it away, leaving India’s players and fans bewildered. But Samson, speaking astatine an lawsuit successful Mumbai, revealed that the squad recovered a mode to marque airy of the situation. “It was a spot strange, but we really person a precise affirmative situation successful our dressing room.

Even if we don't person anything, we person to observe that we person everything successful our hands. So really that's what we did,” Samson said. The Rajasthan Royals skipper said that contempt the unusual moment, the players didn’t fto it dampen the celebrations. Captain Suryakumar Yadav adjacent recreated Rohit Sharma’s iconic dilatory locomotion from the 2024 T20 World Cup last earlier the squad lifted an “imaginary trophy” unneurotic successful protest.

The incidental has since developed into an administrative standoff. Reports past week suggested that Naqvi had apologised to the BCCI for the chaos, but the ACC main has denied immoderate specified gesture. Instead, helium reportedly stated that if India “truly” wanted the trophy, they could sojourn the ACC office to cod it from him.

For now, the trophy remains missing, but Samson’s absorption sis yet different symbolic triumph for Team India. Trophy oregon not, India came retired connected apical from the Asia Cup.