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On expected lines, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur did not shingle hands with her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana during the flip for the Women's World Cup fixture, maintaining the inclination acceptable by the men's squad successful Asia Cup.
The BCCI had conveyed the players to debar customary handshake with members of the Pakistani team.
Mel Jones conducted the flip and some the captains maintained their region during the ceremony.
Pakistan won the flip and elected to field.
India, who bask an 11-0 grounds implicit Pakistan successful the ODI format, made a forced alteration to their playing eleven with Renuka Singh replacing an injured Amanjot Kaur.
Pakistan replaced Omaima Sohali with Sadaf Shamas.
In the precocious concluded men's Asia Cup, each 3 games betwixt India and Pakistan took spot successful a hostile environment. India players did not shingle hands earlier oregon aft the crippled with the opposition.
Champions India besides refused to instrumentality the Asia Cup trophy from ACC president Mohsin Naqvi, who happens to beryllium Pakistan Cricket Board main and an interior curate successful the authorities with a pronounced anti-India governmental position.
The hostilities betwixt the 2 neighbours are astatine an all-time precocious aft the Pahalgam panic onslaught successful which 26 Indian tourists were gunned down by Pakistan-backed terrorists.
India had subsequently launched a subject enactment nether ‘Operation Sindoor’ to dismantle panic infrastructure crossed the border.
Teams:
Pakistan Women: Muneeba Ali, Sadaf Shamas, Sidra Amin, Rameen Shamim, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz (wk), Fatima Sana(c), Natalia Pervaiz, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal.
India Women: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani.
