Pakistan’s drama is not ending in the Asia Cup 2025. In the high-voltage match between India and Pakistan, not only created a thrill on the field, but the match continued to be a period of controversies. Actually, after the match, the players of Team India did not join hands with the Pakistani team. The entire Pakistan is stunned on this and demanded the removal of the match referee Andy Paiyoft. However, this demand for PCB was rejected. But in the midst of all this, former PCB president Ramiz Raja has made serious allegations against Andy Paiyoft.
In fact, Rameez Raja has questioned the ICC match referee Andy Picroft and questioned his fairness. Rameez Raja called Pycroft a favorite of India and claimed that his decisions seem unilaterally. The controversy starts with a small incident of joining hands and is questioning the credibility of the entire tournament.
In a joint press conference with PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi before the match against the UAE, Rameez Raja directly attacked Picroft. He said that, the interesting thing is that ICC Match Referee Andy Picroft is a favorite of the Indian team. Whenever I host the toss, he is always there. Right now we were talking on data in which he has been a referee in India’s match 90 times. This thing seems quite strange to me and it should not happen. He is mostly employed to fulfill this responsibility in Team India matches.
How much truth in the allegations of Rameez Raja?
Let me tell you that Andy Pycroft has played the role of match referee in 124 matches of Team India so far. This includes Test, ODI and T20 three formats. But this number is not less for Pakistan’s team. Andy Paiyoft has also played the match referee in Pakistan’s 102 international matches. In such a situation, this claim of Rameez Raja is just like an absurd statement. Which has no truth.