{"id":9152,"date":"2025-09-17T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=638294"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:45:07","slug":"asia-cup-2025-huge-embarrassment-for-pakistan-as-icc-warns-of-16-million-penalty-over-boycott-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-2025-huge-embarrassment-for-pakistan-as-icc-warns-of-16-million-penalty-over-boycott-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: Huge embarrassment for Pakistan as ICC warns of $16 million penalty over boycott threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"183\" data-end=\"428\">The <strong data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"226\">International Cricket Council (ICC)<\/strong> has dealt a major blow to Pakistan\u2019s stance in the <strong data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"307\">Asia Cup 2025 controversy<\/strong>, warning that the team would face a <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"370\">USD 16 million penalty<\/strong> if they boycotted their clash against the UAE in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"430\" data-end=\"622\">The ultimatum forced the <strong data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"497\">Pakistan team to abandon boycott plans<\/strong> and leave their hotel for the stadium after earlier refusing to play in protest against match referee <strong data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"619\">Jeffrey Pycroft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"624\" data-end=\"789\">The dramatic turnaround has left Pakistan facing widespread criticism, with the incident seen as a <strong data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"786\">huge embarrassment on both cricketing and diplomatic fronts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) has dealt a major blow to Pakistan\u2019s stance in the Asia Cup 2025 controversy, warning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":31872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9152","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\/9152","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}