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India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025: The Indian cricket team has come out with their first response on Haris Rauf's controversial actions during their match against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

India maintained their winning run in the ongoing tournament as they defeated their arch-rivals Pakistan by 6 wickets. This was India's second win over their arch-rivals in this Asia Cup.

The IND vs PAK match witnessed Haris and opening batter Sahibzada Farhan making some objectionable gestures, which have not gone down well with the Indian fans. During India's run chase, Haris was fielding on the boundary line and was engaged in fight of gestures with the crowd.

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Haris Rauf then signalled towards the crowd as he made gestures of 6-0. Earlier this year, Pakistan had claimed that they brought down 6 Indian fighter jets during Operation Sindoor, where India targeted terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The pacer also passed signals of fighter jets being brought down. Not just this, Shaheen and Haris were also involved in a verbal exchanges with Indian openers Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill; however, it was to no avail as India outclassed them in all departments once again.

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"Let me just say, the amount of pressure that's been heaped on the players because of the situation, it's very difficult to control their behaviour. I did see some of the things Haris did, and, you know, that's not our concern. Like I said earlier, we're really proud of how the guys carried themselves, you know, they were on fire with their bats on the field. You know, how the teams showed their ambitions," India's assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate said in the press conference ahead of their match against Bangladesh.

During Pakistan's batting, their opener Sahibzada Farhan also came up with objectionable gesture of gunfire celebration after reaching his fifty.

Aiming to make it to the final and maintained their winning run in the tournament, India will be up against Bangladesh in their second Super Fours clash on Wednesday.

The member of India's support staff Doeschate also said that the world knows what the Pakistan pacers were trying to do by regularly chirping. However, he stated that he's really proud of his opening batters, Abhishek and Gill, for giving a proper answer with the bat.

"I'll say, given the situation, you can see why guys are behaving and what they're trying to portray. But we were very focused on how we wanted to play. I think we stuck to the cricket really well. It would have been easy to lose our minds at that point, given the celebration as well," said ten Doeschate.

"Some of the words during the game from the Pakistan bowling unit, but I thought the guys stuck really well to the task of getting the job done and winning the game," he added.