{"id":22026,"date":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22026"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","slug":"no-handshakes-again-as-india-pakistan-meet-at-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22026","title":{"rendered":"No handshakes again as India, Pakistan meet at Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana did not shake hands at the toss of Sunday&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup cricket match, mirroring the actions of their men&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p>Sana won the toss and chose to field at Colombo&#8217;s R. Premadasa Stadium, where there were also no formal greetings between the players of both teams before the national anthems.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbours faced off three times at the recent men&#8217;s Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and did not shake hands before or after.<\/p>\n<p>The Asia Cup, which concluded last Sunday with India beating their rivals, was notable for ill-feeling between the two teams and a series of on-field flashpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament in the UAE was the first time the nuclear-armed neighbours had met since a deadly border conflict between them in May.<\/p>\n<p>India and Sri Lanka are co-hosting the Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a compromise deal, Pakistan will play all their matches including Sunday&#8217;s group match in Sri Lanka, rather than travel to India.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan only meet in cricket in international tournaments and on neutral territory.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana did not shake hands at the toss of Sunday&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup cricket match, mirroring the actions of their men&#8217;s teams. Sana won the toss and chose to field at Colombo&#8217;s R. Premadasa Stadium, where there were also no formal greetings between the players of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}