Donate match earnings to Pahalgam widows: AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj dares Suryakumar Yadav

(You just said it. It is easy to make claims that we dedicate this victory to the martyrs. Very good, you are very smart. I dare you, Suryakumar Yadav, that if you have the guts, if BCCI has guts and ICC has guts, I give you another challenge: Give all the money you earned from the broadcasting rights, from advertisers and from the business of cricket to the widows of the [Pahalgam] martyrs. We will also accept your dedication. You don’t have the courage. You don’t have the guts. You lie that I dedicate this. It’s very shameful.)

Yadav hasn’t responded to Bharadwaj’s barb so far.

What Suryakumar Yadav said after India-Pak match

During the post-match press conference, Yadav was asked about his decision to walk away without the customary handshake twice: once after the toss right at the start of the match and then after the match got over. Yadav said he believed that “I feel few things, few things in life are ahead of sportsmen’s spirit also”.

“We stand with the families of victims of the Pahalgam attack. We express our solidarity and we want to dedicate today’s win to the Armed Forces,” he said.

How Pakistan responded

Pakistan didn’t take well to India’s gesture and lodged an official protest. Pakistan skipper Agha also gave the post-match press conference a miss. An official statement from the Pakistani team said: “Team manager Naveed Cheema lodged a strong protest against Indian players’ behaviour of not shaking hands. It was deemed as unsporting and against the spirit of the game. As a protest we did not send our captain to the post-match ceremony.”

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