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India has filed an authoritative ailment with the ICC against Pakistan cricketers Haris Rauf and Sahibzada Farhan for their provocative gestures during the 2 sides' Asia Cup Super 4 crippled successful Dubai past Sunday (September 14, 2025).
It is reliably learnt that the BCCI filed the ailment against the duo connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) and ICC is successful receipt of the e-mail.
An ICC proceeding is expected to instrumentality spot successful lawsuit Sahibzada and Rauf contradict these allegations successful writing. They mightiness person to look earlier the ICC Elite Panel Referee Richie Richardson for a hearing.
In a retaliatory gesture, the Pakistan Cricket Board besides seems to person lodged an authoritative ailment with the planetary genitor assemblage against Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav for expressing his solidarity with victims of Pahalgam panic onslaught and dedicating his team's triumph to the Indian Armed Forces progressive successful Operation Sindoor. His comments came aft the September 14 game.
PCB alleges that Surya's comments are "political" though technically it needs to beryllium seen erstwhile precisely did it record the complaint, which needs to beryllium lodged wrong 7 days of the said comment.
Rauf, Sahibzada gestures
During the September 21 match, Rauf had made gestures to picture the bringing down of a level to mock India's subject enactment aft Indian supporters chanted "Kohli, Kohli" referring to the mates of match-winning sixes that the Indian fable deed disconnected the pacer astatine MCG during a T20 World Cup crippled successful 2022.
During the match, helium hurled abuses astatine Indian openers Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma during his bowling spell and the 2 youngsters responded with their bats.
Sahibzada, during the aforesaid match, celebrated with a gun-firing motion utilizing his bat arsenic a instrumentality weapon prop, thing that has been wide criticised.
"That solemnisation was conscionable a infinitesimal astatine that time. I bash not bash a batch of celebrations aft scoring 50. But, it abruptly came to my caput that let's bash a solemnisation today. I did that. I don't cognize however radical volition instrumentality it. I don't attraction astir that," Farhan had told reporters aft the match.
Both Rauf and Sahibzada volition person to explicate their gestures astatine the ICC proceeding and if they can't person past they could look sanctions arsenic per th codification of conduct.
Naqvi posts cryptic CR7 video connected ‘X’
Adding substance to the fire, Asian Cricket Council president Mohsin Naqvi connected Wednesday posted a slow-motion video of Cristiano Ronaldo connected 'X', wherever the Portuguese fable is seen gesturing that an craft abruptly crashed, thing that Rauf indicated on-field during the clash of arch-rivals past Sunday.
Naqvi, isolated from besides being Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, is the 'Interior Minister' of his state and is known to marque provocative statements against the India.
Ronaldo, successful the video, could good beryllium explaining however his nonstop free-kick dipped and entered the goal.
After this, whether the Indian team, which is present the finalist of the Asia Cup, stock the dais with the ACC Chairman is thing that remains to beryllium seen.
The substance hasn't gone unnoticed arsenic acold arsenic some BCCI and ICC mandarins are concerned. Only clip volition archer if determination volition beryllium immoderate benignant of enactment taken against Naqvi.
