A senior PHF functionary said he received a fax message from Pakistan's High Commission on December 24, saying that the IHF had been able to finalise 13 players and that the remaining three names would be intimated later. It so happened that December 25 was a holiday. The PHF maintained that the complete details of the teams should have been in at least a week earlier. "Most of the countries taking part in the tournament had done so, except for India," PHF Secretary Mudassar Asghar said. "Teams had to arrive in Pakistan on December 26 while the Indian squad was not even finalised till that day. Therefore, it had become impossible for us to entertain them so late with so many formalities yet to be completed."