Team India posted a 5-wicket win over arch-rival in the final of the Asia Cup 2025 on Sunday to successfully defend their title in the United Arab Emirates. However, following the victory, India refused to receive the trophy from PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi, who then went on to leave the premises with the title, which complicated things further.

Taking a dig at the chaos, Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya shared images of himself similar to the ones he shared during India’s T20WC win, but with the twist of a cup emoji instead of the actual silverware.

India won the toss and chose to bowl first.

The rival started strongly with Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman adding 84 runs for the first wicket. Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Farhan after he scored 57 runs off 38 deliveries to reach his half-century.

Saim Ayub contributed 14 runs before falling to Kuldeep Yadav. Mohammad Haris was dismissed for a duck by Axar Patel. Chakravarthy then removed Zaman for 46 runs, and Patel dismissed Hussain Talat for a single run.
Salman Ali Agha was dismissed by Kuldeep for 8 runs, who then took the wicket of Shaheen Afridi for a duck.

Yadav completed his four-fer by removing Faheem Ashraf for a duck. Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Haris Rauf for 6 runs and closed out the opponent's innings by taking the wicket of Mohammad Nawaz, who also scored 6 runs.

India did not have a great start as Abhishek Sharma fell to Ashraf for just 5 runs, and skipper Suryakumar Yadav was dismissed by Afridi for 1 run. Ashraf struck again to remove Shubman Gill for 12 runs, while Abrar Ahmed dismissed Sanju Samson for 24 runs.

Tilak Varma and Shivam Dube stabilised the chase with a 60-run partnership before Dube was dismissed for 33 runs by Ashraf.

Rinku Singh joined Varma, and together they remained unbeaten on 4 and 69 runs respectively, closing out the chase with two balls to spare.