India, Nov. 7 -- Men's Asia Cup. Women's World Cup. And now the Hong Kong Sixes. Apart from the result remaining the same (an Indian victory), one more thing has remained consistent: there have been no handshakes between the players from India and Pakistan. The trend, which began at the Asia Cup in Dubai, was later followed in the Women's World Cup, and now it has carried over to the Hong Kong Sixes tournament, where India defeated Pakistan by two runs due to the Duckworth-Lewis (DLS) method.

Once the match was over and the rain played spoilsport, the broadcast was immediately cut off, and there were no signs of the players from either team. The entire world wanted to find out whether there would be any exchange of pleasantries between t...