India, Oct. 22 -- The simmering tensions between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have intensified ahead of next month's ICC meeting, as PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has firmly rejected BCCI's demand for an alternative arrangement to collect the Asia Cup trophy, instead offering a formal handover in Dubai on November 10.

In a strongly worded reply to the BCCI and other Asian Cricket Council (ACC) member nations, Naqvi, who also serves as ACC President, reiterated that it is his right and duty to personally present the trophy to the Indian cricket team, in keeping with tradition and protocol.

"The ACC trophy rightly belongs to the Indian cricket team and is being held in trust till such t...