The Handshake that Became a Headline

India walloped Pakistan in the Asia Cup; seven wickets down, target chased early, a convincing win for the Blue. But there was no customary respect.

- Ravi Shankar

No shared smiles. Just cold silence and closed dressing room doors. The PCB threw a fit, claiming the umpire told India not to shake hands. Seriously? The same umpire who decides wides and no-balls is now the UN envoy for Indo-Pak relations? If cricket collapses into conspiracy theories about handshakes, the spirit of the game has already retired hurt. But if a handshake hurts Islamabad more than a lost match, maybe Pakistani citizens should turn that outrage upward: stop Pahalgams, stop proxy wars, stop the bleeding, and the handshakes will perhaps return faster than a Bumrah yorker, Pakistan has forgotten that its terrorist games deserve bullets, not Yorkers.