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When India refused to play with pakistan: The Asia Cup 2025 is scheduled to begin from 8 September. On September 14, India vs Pakistan will face a match, but India has not played any cricket match against Pakistan since the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 August this year. But this is not the first time, even before this, controversy has arisen about the India-Pakistan match in the Asia Cup 2 times and India boycotted it.

In 1986 India did the series bycot (Asia Cup 1986 India Pakistan)

In 1986 Asia Cup In the tournament, India refused to play against Pakistan. This was the second season of the Asia Cup, but India refused to go to Sri Lanka. Actually, Sri Lanka was hosting this tournament. At that time India and Sri Lanka relations were not good, so the Indian team refused to be a part of this league and did not play the Asia Cup match against Pakistan.

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Match against Pakistan in India in 1990-91 (Asia Cup 1990 Boycott India)

This was followed by the fourth season of the Asia Cup in 1990-91. During that time, due to poor relations between India and Pakistan, India had boycotted this tournament.

Will India Pakistan Cricket Rivalry Asia Cup be able to be done this time

Now the Group Stage of Asia Cup 2025 is going to be held between India and Pakistan on 14 September 2025. If these two teams reach Super 4, then there can be two more matches between them. But if India does a bycot of Pakistan, Pakistan will get two points of walkover directly, which India does not want at all. Although the Government of India refused to play a bilateral series between India and Pakistan, the international matches such as the Asia Cup or the World Cup can be played.