As the debate over 'Trophy Gate' continues, a defiant Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi refused to budge saying the Indian team is \"welcome\" to collect the Asia Cup trophy from him at the continental body's head office.
\"As ACC President, I was ready to hand over the trophy that very day and I am still ready now. If they truly want it, they are welcome to come to the ACC office and collect it from me,\" Naqvi wrote in a post on X as controversy around the champions being denied the top prize continued to rage.
Naqvi, who also heads the Pakistan Cricket Board and is the country's interior minister rejected reports claiming that he, at the ACC AGM apologised to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials for his actions at the presentation ceremony when he