{"id":9137,"date":"2025-09-16T12:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=637633"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:22:20","slug":"asia-cup-2025-icc-rejects-pcbs-plea-to-remove-match-referee-andy-pycroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-2025-icc-rejects-pcbs-plea-to-remove-match-referee-andy-pycroft\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: ICC rejects PCB\u2019s plea to remove match referee Andy Pycroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"337\">The International Cricket Council (ICC) has turned down the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s (PCB) demand to remove match referee <strong data-start=\"277\" data-end=\"293\">Andy Pycroft<\/strong> from officiating in the ongoing Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"699\">The PCB had filed a complaint alleging that Pycroft, at the toss before the India\u2013Pakistan clash on Sunday, asked Pakistan skipper <strong data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"489\">Salman Ali Agha<\/strong> not to shake hands with his Indian counterpart <strong data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"557\">Suryakumar Yadav<\/strong>. The board also claimed that it was on Pycroft\u2019s insistence that the customary exchange of team sheets between captains did not take place.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"846\">An ICC source confirmed, \u201cLate last night, ICC had sent a reply to PCB stating that Pycroft won\u2019t be removed and their plea has been rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"1098\">Pycroft, 69, is scheduled to officiate Pakistan\u2019s final group stage game against the UAE on Wednesday, despite PCB\u2019s protest. Pakistan team manager <strong data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1012\">Naved Cheema<\/strong> had separately lodged a complaint with the Asian Cricket Council over the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) has turned down the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s (PCB) demand to remove match referee Andy Pycroft\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}