Watch: Sunil Gavaskar makes fun of Pakistan after a humiliating defeat against India in Asia Cup 2025

IndiaHe commanded the victory of seven gates Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2025 Awarded a widespread discussion not only for dominant performance, but also for controversial post-match events that followed. Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar delivered a scathing assessment of Pakistan’s performance while the Indian captain Suryakumar YadavThe decision to jump traditional hand handles has created diplomatic tensions.

Sunil Gavaskar Trolls Pakistan after having crushed the defeat against India in Asia Cup 2025

The former 76 -year -old Indian captain who has witnessed the Pakistani cricket since the 1960s has expressed his disappointment in the face of the current team. Speaking on Sony Sports Network after the Gavaskar match said “I do not know if Ajay (Jadeja) Viru (Virender Sehwag) or Irfan (Pathan) agrees with me but I followed the Pakistani team of the 1960s. But today, this is the first time that I felt that this is not a Pakistani team. Yeh Koi Popatwadi Hai team“.

The term “popatwadi” is the slang of Mumbai cricket referring to a weak or ordinary team. Pakistan only succeeded in 127/9 in their sleeves with Indian spinners Kuldeep Yadav (3/18) and AXAR PATEL (2/18) dismantling their range of strikers. Only SAHIBZADA Farhanfight 40 and Shaheen Shah AfridiThe late development of 33 * has ensured a certain respectability in total.

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Handle controversy and dedication to the armed forces

The consequences of the match were overshadowed by the refusal of the Indian players to shake hands with their Pakistani counterparts. Suryakumar and Shivam Dube Market directly in the locker room after the victory, inviting the Pakistani captain Salman Ali Agha To jump the presentation ceremony after the match protest.

The defense of the actions of his team Suryakumar devoted victory to the Indian armed forces and expressed his solidarity with the victims of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. “”Little things in life are ahead of the sporting spirit,, We are holding with all the victims of Pahalgam’s terrorist attack and we stick to their families. We dedicate this victory to our courageous armed forces who participated in Operation Sindoor,He said at the press conference.

Pakistan Cricket Board has filed official complaints to the Asian Cricket Council and the International Cricket Council alleging that the referee of the match Andy Pycroft asked the captains not to shake hands. However, it is unlikely that the ICC accepts Pakistan’s request for the withdrawal of Pycroft with sources suggesting that it may have acted on ACC instructions rather than independently.

The controversy highlights the deepening tensions between the cricket teams with India extending their T20i domination over Pakistan at 11-3. Although hand handles remain a tradition of cricket, they are not compulsory under ICC regulations, sanctions against India are unlikely.

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