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

Following the precedent set by the Indian males’s cricket workforce through the Asia Cup in Dubai, Harmanpreet Kaur and her aspect will even not interact in customary handshakes with Pakistan gamers throughout their Girls’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 just accept the trophy from a Pakistan consultant.

“The BCCI is aligned with the federal government and there will likely be no customary handshake on the toss, no photo-shoot with the match referee, and no end-of-game handshakes. The coverage adopted by the boys will even be carried out by the ladies,” a senior BCCI supply advised PTI on circumstances of anonymity.

It is going to even 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 environment 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 essentially the most fundamental pleasantries.