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"Domestic governmental issues" mightiness forestall Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi from attending the ICC's Executive Board gathering successful Dubai wherever the BCCI is acceptable to rise the contented of the Asia Cup trophy not being presented to India.
The four-day gathering began connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) and Naqvi, who is besides the chairman of the Asian Cricket Council, was to look the BCCI's ire for not handing the trophy aft the winning players refused to judge it from him owed to his anti-India statements.
The PCB root did not specify the nonstop governmental issues that would travel successful the mode of his attendance. Naqvi besides holds the interior minister's presumption successful his state and has not attended ICC meetings aft Jay Shah was elected Chairman of the satellite assemblage past year.
A root successful the PCB said that the Board's Chief Operating Officer Sumair Syed volition be the main executives gathering and successful lawsuit Naqvi is incapable to question to Dubai, helium could correspond Pakistan successful the all-important committee gathering connected November 7.
The Asia Cup Trophy lies locked successful the Asian Cricket Council headquarter successful Dubai contempt the last being held backmost successful precocious September.
The root said determination was besides a likelihood of Naqvi joining the committee gathering remotely.
The Pakistan curate was astatine the centre of the trophy contention erstwhile helium had it sent to the ACC secretariat successful Dubai. He has since insisted that the Indian squad indispensable judge the trophy from him and has ordered the ACC unit not to determination the silverware without his permission.
The BCCI wrote a missive to the ACC asking for the trophy to beryllium sent to Mumbai but Naqvi is insisting that it volition beryllium handed implicit to a BCCI typical and a subordinate of the Indian squad lone by him astatine a relation successful Dubai connected November 10.
