{"id":9144,"date":"2025-09-17T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=638274"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:27:45","slug":"pakistan-pulls-out-of-asia-cup-over-handshake-row-with-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pakistan-pulls-out-of-asia-cup-over-handshake-row-with-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan pulls out of Asia Cup over handshake row with India: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"391\">In a dramatic turn of events, <strong data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"214\">Pakistan has pulled out of the Asia Cup<\/strong>, sources confirmed on Wednesday. The decision reportedly stems from a <strong data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"313\">handshake row with India<\/strong>, leading to players being informed that <strong data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"388\">no match will take place today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"704\">The controversy adds another layer of tension to the high-profile tournament, which has already seen heated exchanges on and off the field between the two arch-rivals. Details of the incident remain unclear, but sources indicate that the fallout from the disagreement prompted Pakistan\u2019s immediate withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"864\">This development casts uncertainty over the tournament schedule and raises questions about how the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) will address the sudden exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dramatic turn of events, Pakistan has pulled out of the Asia Cup, sources confirmed on Wednesday. The decision\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1015],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-pcb"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}