Shahryar Khan looks for clear answer from BCCI on India series

In the letter, Khan, a former diplomat, has also expressed disappointment at the treatment meted out to the PCB delegation during their recent visit to Mumbai to meet Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar.

The meeting was cancelled after hundreds of Shiv Sena activists stormed the BCCI office protesting that India should not have cricketing ties with Pakistan. Relations between the neighbours have been tense after the collapse of planned peace talks in August this year. The two countries last played each other in a bilateral ODI series hosted by India, in 2012-13.

The Sena protest also led to the International Cricket Committee pulling out Pakistan umpire Aleem Dar from umpiring duty from the fourth and fifth One-Dayers between India and South Africa in Chennai and Mumbai as a precautionary measure.

“He has said in the letter that it was disappointing and a matter of concern that the BCCI didn’t hold the promised talks on the series because of one incident of the Shiv Sena activists storming the Indian board offices in Mumbai,” a PCB source told PTI.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Daily Dawn newspaper quoted senior BCCI functionary Rajiv Shukla as saying that talks would resume soon.

“The talks regarding an Indo-Pak bilateral series have not derailed yet and we will continue anytime after the India-South Africa series ends,” Shukla, also the Indian Premier League chairman, was quoted as saying.