{"id":91865,"date":"2026-02-15T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/no-handshake-at-toss-indias-stance-against-pak-continues-despite-calls-for-spirit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:37:55","slug":"no-handshake-at-toss-indias-stance-against-pak-continues-despite-calls-for-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/no-handshake-at-toss-indias-stance-against-pak-continues-despite-calls-for-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"No handshake at toss: India&#8217;s stance against Pak continues despite calls for &#8216;spirit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s captain Suryakumar Yadav and Pakistan&#8217;s skipper Salman Ali Agha skipped the customary handshake at the T20 World Cup toss in Colombo. This continues India&#8217;s stance, observed since the Asia Cup 2025, sparking debate. While Pakistan expressed openness to the gesture, India&#8217;s captain remained non-committal, emphasizing a focus on cricket.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s captain Suryakumar Yadav and Pakistan&#8217;s skipper Salman Ali Agha skipped the customary handshake at the T20 World Cup toss in Colombo. This continues India&#8217;s stance, observed since the Asia Cup 2025, sparking debate. While Pakistan expressed openness to the gesture, India&#8217;s captain remained non-committal, emphasizing a focus on cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":91866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}