Women’s World Cup: No Handshake Policy for Women in Blue

Following the precedent set by the Indian males’s cricket workforce in the course of the Asia Cup in Dubai, Harmanpreet Kaur and her facet may also not interact in customary handshakes with Pakistan gamers throughout their Women’s World Cup conflict in Colombo on October 5.

With Indo-Pak cricketing ties at their lowest ebb, tensions escalated additional after Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Mohsin Naqvi refused handy over the winner’s trophy to Suryakumar Yadav in Dubai.

The Indian males’s workforce had already declined to simply accept the trophy from a Pakistan consultant.

“The BCCI is aligned with the government and there will be no customary handshake at the toss, no photo-shoot with the match referee, and no end-of-game handshakes. The policy followed by the men will also be implemented by the women,” a senior BCCI supply advised PTI on circumstances of anonymity.

It may also be carefully watched as to who presents the toss in Colombo, with expectations that it might be a former participant or pundit from a impartial nation.

The ambiance will stand in sharp distinction to the 2022 ODI World Cup in New Zealand, the place photos of Indian gamers doting over Bismah Maroof’s toddler daughter had gone viral.

This time, Harmanpreet Kaur and Pakistan skipper Fatima Sana are unlikely to alternate even probably the most fundamental pleasantries.