India, Nov. 1 -- India and Pakistan's relationship reached a new low in 2025, not just geopolitically but as a result also on the sports field. The animosity that has been brewed between the two rivals nations manifested on the cricket field, where they faced off in three contests in the Asia Cup, each of them hostile after the attacks on Phalgam and India's response with Operation Sindoor.

A big controversy was the Indian cricketers refusing to shake hands with their Pakistani counterparts at the end of these contests, which snowballed into the fiasco with the trophy remaining unpresented by PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi.

The exception was the match between the junior teams from the two countries in the recent Sultan of Johor Cup, an U-21 hoc...