The chill in India\u2013Bangladesh cricket relations showed on the field today when the captains skipped the customary handshake after the toss in the U19 World Cup group match in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Bangladesh\u2019s regular captain Azizul Hakim Tamim not on the square, vice-captain Jawad Abrar<\/strong> represented the side. At match referee Dean Cosker\u2019s<\/strong> instruction, India\u2019s U19 captain Ayush Matre<\/strong> flipped the coin; Abrar called \u201ctails\u201d and Bangladesh won the toss. As the formality ended, Matre walked away without offering a hand, and Abrar did not initiate one either\u2014an exchange (or lack thereof) that immediately stirred debate before a ball was bowled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The moment arrives amid a broader freeze: BCCI\u2019s instruction to Kolkata Knight Riders to release Mustafizur Rahman<\/strong> from the upcoming IPL sparked a political and cricketing row, followed by Bangladesh\u2019s decision not to send its senior team to India for the men\u2019s T20 World Cup. ICC and BCB remain in talks over Bangladesh\u2019s fixtures and venue options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Such lapses in on-field courtesies have surfaced elsewhere in South Asian cricket over the past year, including high-profile incidents in India\u2013Pakistan fixtures. Today\u2019s youth match proceeded as scheduled, but the pre-game scene underscored how off-field disputes are bleeding into cricket\u2019s most basic rituals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The chill in India\u2013Bangladesh cricket relations showed on the field today when the captains skipped the customary handshake after the toss in the U19 World Cup group match in Bulawayo. With Bangladesh\u2019s regular captain Azizul Hakim Tamim not on the square, vice-captain Jawad Abrar represented the side. At match referee Dean Cosker\u2019s instruction, India\u2019s U19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}