India, Sept. 14 -- India-Pakistan encounters have been one-sided in recent years, but the drama that they bring upstages everything else. On Sunday, in the women's Asia Cup final, it wasn't Pakistan that the Indians lined up to play - it was defending champions Sri Lanka - but at the end of the day, the tense India-Pakistan relations took over the contest after Harmanpreet Kaur's bunch refused to take the winners' trophy from Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman and Asian Cricket Council president Mohsin Naqvi.

Ever since the short war between the two countries in May last year, things have been pretty bad between them on the political level. It's been so bad that it has affected the sporting arena, too. Last year, after winning the men...