IND vs PAK: Why India didn't collect Asia Cup winner's trophy despite beating Pakistan in final? BCCI secretary opens up

India beat Pakistan in the nail-biting thrilling game at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday (September 28). However, they didn't collect the winning trophy or medals.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have been informed by the Asian Cricket Council that the Indian cricket team will not be collecting their awards tonight. So that does conclude the post-match presentation," informed Simon Doull who was hosting the ceremony.

The post match presentation got delayed as Pakistan's Mohsin Naqvi wanted to be there at match presentation as he is Asian Cricket Council head but Suryakumar Yadav and team told ACC , they won't collect the award from Naqvi. And it was followed by Naqvi leaving with the Asia Cup Trophy.

BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia on the situation

“India is fighting a war with a country and a leader belonging to that country was supposed to hand over the trophy to us."

“We cannot accept a trophy from a person who represents a country that is waging a war against our country. So we have refused to take that trophy, but that does not mean that the gentleman will take the trophy and the medals, which are to be given to our country, to his own hotel room. That is totally unexpected, and we hope that his good sense will prevail, and he will send back the trophy to India as soon as possible, which will restore some semblance of morality. At least we are expecting that from him,” he added.

"We are going to lodge a very strong protest against the behaviour of the gentleman in today's prize distribution ceremony,” he further said.

Team India celebrate win with imaginary trophy

The Indian team posed for the cameras without their medals or trophy. Suryakumar Yadav did a Rohit Sharma like slow walk, but by holding an imaginary trophy. They the did mock-lifts of the trophy while giving a pose for the cameras.

BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla on India's win

Shubman Gill shares hilarious post

Shubman Gill shared a funny picture with Abhishek Sharma on Instagram handle edited with a trophy.