India men’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate on Tuesday clarified the team’s position on the provocative gestures from Pakistan’s Haris Rauf and Sahibzada Farhan in Sunday’s Asia Cup 2025 Super-Four clash in Dubai. The Dutch coach said that India noticed the actions, but they don’t ‘concern’ them, adding that he was proud of how the batting lineup responded to that with their skills, without ‘losing their minds’ over it.

Farhan did a gun-firing gesture to celebrate his half-century in the first innings. Rauf was more hysterical, celebrating a wicket with a plane-crash gesture and repeatedly getting under the skin of the Indian crowd with hand signs clearly alluding to the four-day border conflict between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor. He has been severely criticised in Indi

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