{"id":621,"date":"2025-09-21T05:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=621"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:42:51","slug":"controversial-match-referee-pycroft-to-officiate-pakistan-india-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Controversial match referee Pycroft to officiate Pakistan-India match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The &#8220;controversial&#8221; match referee, Andy Pycroft will officiate the forthcoming match between Pakistan and India in the Super 4s of the Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday (September 21).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According &nbsp;to details, ICC\u2019s controversial match referee Andy Pycroft has apologised to the manager and captain of the Pakistan cricket team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the India\u2013Pakistan match of the Group B on Sunday (September 14), Pycroft had prevented both team captains from shaking hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reacted strongly to Pycroft\u2019s action. Pycroft termed the September 14 incident as a result of miscommunication and offered an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ICC has agreed to hold an inquiry into the code of conduct violation that occurred during the 14 September match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;controversial&#8221; match referee, Andy Pycroft will officiate the forthcoming match between Pakistan and India in the Super 4s of the Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday (September 21). According &nbsp;to details, ICC\u2019s controversial match referee Andy Pycroft has apologised to the manager and captain of the Pakistan cricket team. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}