Trophy row: ACC defers call, leaves decision to five Test boards

The much-awaited decision on the status of the Asia Cup trophy and medallions, which were not presented to the victorious Indian team after the final on Sunday, has been deferred. The members of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), who met in Dubai on Tuesday (September 30) afternoon, have left it to the five Test playing nations of the ACC.

Effectively, it has now been left to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to resolve the impasse over the trophy which was taken away by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Mohsin Naqvi after the Indian players refused to accept it from him on Sunday night at Dubai International Stadium.

The members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) besides PCB will convene a formal meeting among them to find a solution on the trophy about which the BCCI has already vowed to escalate at the ICC level. They have been told to hold the meeting offline.

The ACC meeting was chaired by Naqvi, and Rajeev Shukla and Ashish Shelar were the Indian representatives who attended the meeting virtually. There were two other items on the agenda -- election of the vice-president and finalisation of schedule for other ACC events like emerging players, under-19 tournaments. Neither of them was taken up during the meeting.

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