India Today places the incident within an India-Pakistan final in the Asian Games cricket tournament. However, the available material does not indicate the exact location of the match.
According to the outlet’s report, Saim Ayub allegedly gave Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a “baby send-off.” The phrase is reported by the source, which does not provide further details about its manner or content.
The same source reports that Abhishek Sharma responded with sixes. In India Today’s account, the reaction to Ayub’s gesture thus becomes the other central element of the incident.
India Today therefore presents the sequence as occurring in two stages: first, Ayub’s gesture toward Sooryavanshi, followed by Sharma’s strokes. The material provided does not make it possible to reconstruct a more detailed chronology of the on-field action.
The incident involves the three players named in the report: Saim Ayub for Pakistan, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as the recipient of the gesture, and Abhishek Sharma in response with the bat. In the available material, India Today provides no further details about the on-field exchange.
It is also not possible to establish the actual date of the match from the material provided: October 3, 2026, appears in the URL and publication metadata, but it is not confirmed as the date of the event. The regulatory context and the result of the final are also not specified.
Based on the available information, the verifiable detail therefore remains the one reported by the single source: in an India-Pakistan Asian Games final, the gesture attributed to Ayub toward Sooryavanshi was followed, according to India Today, by Abhishek Sharma’s sixes.