The Pakistan women’s cricket team expects their Indian counterparts to carry on the ‘handshake boycott’ heralded by the Men in Blue in the 2025 Asia Cup. According to Telecom Asia Sport, Pakistan team manager Hina Munawar has taken guidelines from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on what the players’ stance should be for the group stage match scheduled for Sunday (October 5) in Colombo.

Other reports in India mention how neither the PCB nor the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has approached the International Cricket Council (ICC) with a decision or even as much as a query about the issue. However, the ICC has no protocols about handshakes, and it has always been a tradition, which is usually (but not always) followed by team captains at the toss and the entire squads to mark

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