Where do India and Pakistan go from here?

On October 5, India and Pakistan meet again for the fourth time in less than three weeks to play a cricket match.

- Sharda Ugra

At the ICC Women's World Cup 2025, with India as hosts. The match will be played in Sri Lanka because well... Moot question: will there be handshakes? If handshakes are banned, should captains exchange the team sheets only through the referee? What if the exchange leads to Indian hands accidently touching Pakistani? Will that be a gross violation of BCCI’s new Patriot Act? Is eye contact going to be measured too?

Now that the men on both sides have shown off their muscular nationalism, are the women cricketers now duty bound to continue with this tin-can opera? Or have host broadcasters decided that snarling women can’t match bearded, tattooed men making faces?

Where does India and Pakistan cricket go from here? After the Asia Cup, neither has any moral high ground left in cricket. If neither side or their ‘elders’ believe they owe the sport itself basic respect when the two get together, why bother to play at all?