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DUBAI: Asia Cup was enveloped successful precocious play Wednesday arsenic the Pakistan team, smarting implicit being refused handshakes earlier and aft the India lucifer past Sunday, archetypal threatened to boycott its must-win crippled against UAE, past started play an hr late.
The squad initially refused to question to Dubai International Cricket Stadium aft its telephone to regenerate lucifer referee Andy Pycroft with Richie Richardson was turned down. Pakistan had alleged it was Pycroft, "acting connected behalf of BCCI", who had instructed skipper Salman Ali Agha not to shingle hands with skipper Suryakumar Yadav astatine the toss. PCB sent a 2nd missive to ICC seeking Pycroft's removal. ICC, however, retained him & reportedly issued a rebuttal clearing him of wrongdoing.
