Ishaan Kishan is not wearing Indian jersey at the moment, but he is still making headlines abroad. Ishaan Kishan is currently in England, where he is currently representing Nottinghamshire in the County Championship Division One 2025.
In the ongoing County Championship Division One 2025 conflict between Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, the Indian wicketkeeper-better was part of a rare India-Pakistan festival on the ground. Pakistani Pesar, Mohammad Abbas and Ishaan are currently team companions.
Ishaan Kishan and Mohammad Abbas celebration goes viral in the county championship
Together with Mohammad Abbas, who recently joined Nottinghamshire after a successful magic with Hampshire, Kishan helped Nottinghamshire achieve significant success, but it was that he celebrated it together that many eyebrows arose on social media.
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The first over of the county championship match led to a rare moment when Abbas hit the golden duck with the help of an Indian wicketkeeper-better to kill Yorkshire’s opener Adam Lith and hit gold. Lith took the ball directly to Ishan, and he caught it easily.
And then a heart -wrenching amazing moment has come to the internet from the storm, because Kishan and Abbas hugged each other in the festival, showed pure bliss and mutual honor. There was a rare and heartbreaking scene to celebrate an Indian and an Pakistani cricketer together on the field.
See rare moments here:
County Championship is probably the only professional competition in the world where you will see a Pakistani bowler and an Indian wicket-keeper in the same team these days … pic.twitter.com/yqy4r2wkzq
– Aatif Nawaz (@AatifnaWaz) June 23, 2025
This moment quickly went viral on social media, in which fans from all over the world shared clips and festive images. Most people called it a beautiful example of sportsmanship, saying that cricket once again proved that it could rise above boundaries and politics.
However, as usual, not everyone took it positively. Many fans criticized the gesture, and some of them called for a ban on this sign from Indian cricket, especially after a terrible terrorist attack in Pahgam, Kashmir after military faces between India and Pakistan.
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Ishaan Kishan and Mohammad Abbas create rare ind-Pak county moments
Meanwhile, Ishaan Kishan and Mohammad Abbas Nottinghamshire are sharing the dressing room, which is a rare scene. This is only the sixth time when cricketers from India and Pakistan have played together in county cricket. In the 1970s, for the first time, Bishan Singh Bedi played in county cricket with Mushtaq Mohammad and Sarfaz Nawaz.
Recently, Cheteshwar Pujara and Mohammad Rizwan played together for Sussex in the 2022 County Championship. But Kishan and Abbas’s partnership changed many heads, especially a few months after the India-Pakistan growth.
Ishaan Kishan sent a strong message to BCCI with 87 in his county debut
Before turning his head with his celebration with Pakistani bowler Abbas, Ishaan made headlines with the first bat. At the beginning of his county championship for Nottinghamshire, the left -handed batsman performed his trademark attack by scoring 87 off 98 balls.
Kishan hit 12 borders and six, scored at a strike rate close to 89. With this knock, he sent a clear message to the BCCI and the selectors that he is ready to grab his chance after re-earning the C-Grade Central Contract. However, he signed a contract of only two matches with Nottinghamshire.