{"id":9220,"date":"2025-09-28T19:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=641910"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:35:52","slug":"asia-cup-2025-final-drama-ind-vs-pak-toss-to-have-two-presenters-after-handshake-and-trophy-photo-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-2025-final-drama-ind-vs-pak-toss-to-have-two-presenters-after-handshake-and-trophy-photo-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025 final drama: IND vs PAK toss to have two presenters after handshake and trophy photo row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"486\">The Asia Cup 2025 final between India and Pakistan is turning into more theatre than cricket, with yet another twist \u2014 <strong data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"340\">two toss presenters for the first time ever.<\/strong> Waqar Younis will handle the toss chat with Pakistan skipper Salman Agha, while Ravi Shastri will speak only to India captain Suryakumar Yadav.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"828\">The move comes on the back of escalating off-field drama \u2014 from India refusing a traditional handshake with Pakistan to Suryakumar Yadav skipping the trophy photo alongside Salman Agha. Organisers clearly don\u2019t want another flare-up, and the \u201csplit toss\u201d is being seen as a sign of just how tense things have become between the two camps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"1133\">Never before in international cricket has a toss been divided between two presenters, and fans are already mocking the decision as proof that the rivalry has spilled far beyond the boundary ropes. For many, it sets the tone for what could be the most politically charged India-Pakistan final in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Cup 2025 final between India and Pakistan is turning into more theatre than cricket, with yet another twist\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":31916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9220","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\/9220","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=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}