BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia heaped reward on the Indian girls’s cricket workforce, which received its eighth Ladies’s Asia Cup title by beating Sri Lanka within the summit conflict in Dubai on Sunday.
“All the things went very effectively. We received, and everyone seems to be extraordinarily comfortable. Everyone seems to be pleased with their efficiency, and the largest factor is that our nation’s title is shining vivid. There might be no larger trigger for happiness than this. Everybody put in full laborious work; your entire workforce carried out exceptionally, and our assist employees labored tirelessly, which resulted in us profitable this match so simply,” he informed IANS hours after the sport.
The dominant efficiency of the Indian facet has been overshadowed but once more by its choice to not accumulate the winner’s trophy and cheque from Mohsin Naqvi, the president of the Asian Cricket Council. This mirrored the choice of the India males’s workforce which did the identical after profitable the lads’s Asia Cup beating Pakistan in 2025.
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“Our males’s workforce received the Asia Cup a yr and a half in the past. And our entire scenario, for the reason that April 2025 Pahalgam incident, modified after that. So, after that, there was stress on us from our residents that we shouldn’t hold any relations with our neighboring nation and never play cricket with them. However our authorities has a coverage that we should play in opposition to each nation in multinational tournaments…
“However that doesn’t imply we’ll observe each situation laid out for us. Our navy battle remains to be ongoing. One of many most important leaders who’s working in opposition to the pursuits of our nation; we are able to’t obtain the trophy from him. The Ladies’s workforce has expressed solidarity with the choice taken by the lads’s workforce final yr. It doesn’t diminish the performances of our workforce. We have now received all our matches in a one-sided method. Ladies’s cricket has been rising so effectively in India and there’s no larger proof of that than this. Our entire planning is geared in the direction of the 2026 ICC T20 World Cup. The happiest a part of this match is how India has left everybody else behind and surged to this point forward.”
Saikia was additionally requested about visuals of himself and BCCI vp Rajiv Shukla talking cordially with Naqvi within the Royal Field that went viral.
“It’s not as if we wouldn’t meet anybody. I used to be sitting exterior within the Royal Field seats proper from the toss till the top of the sport. Having sat there, I remained in that very same place all through the match. Everybody who got here met me through the match; somebody sat subsequent to me, then Shukla got here and sat with me. The particular person you talked about additionally got here and sat alongside Deputy Chairman Khalid (Khalid Al Zarooni) sahib. That’s only a regular custom—each time anybody comes, we meet and discuss with everybody. We tried to resolve right this moment’s scenario, however our efforts weren’t profitable. We don’t have any regrets. Our final precedence and ambition was to not deal with who would give the trophy. We wished the Indian workforce to win and we’ve achieved that.”
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“I additionally received the possibility to present the fielding medal that’s given out after each sport. The dialog that was had round that was concerning the Asian Video games, not about whether or not the trophy needs to be taken or not.”
When requested if there was any felicitation deliberate for the victorious Indian facet, Saikia confirmed that the main focus was firmly on bringing again the gold medal from the Asian Video games being held in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture this month.
“At present, there aren’t any such plans. Proper now, our focus is on tomorrow, as our workforce can be leaving for Japan by way of Delhi. So, all our consideration is about on the Asian Video games beginning in Japan, the place our matches are scheduled for the 18th, twentieth and twenty second. Our purpose is to carry house the gold medal, and that’s our sole goal.”
Revealed on Sep 14, 2026