Pakistan women's cricket matches shifted

18 Jan 2013, 9:58 pm   -   Source: AAP

Anti-Pakistan feelings in India have forced a change in venue for Pakistan's women cricketers in the coming World Cup.

The International Cricket Council has decided to shift Women's World Cup matches involving Pakistan from Mumbai to Cuttack due to security concerns in India.

Right-wing party Shiv Senna threatened to disrupt Pakistan's matches in Mumbai and an ICC official says Pakistan's women will play their first-round matches 1,350 kilometre away in Cuttack.

It means the tournament, which was to be based entirely in Mumbai, will be played in two cities.

This week, eight Pakistani hockey players set to play for Mumbai in the new Indian Hockey League were sent home without playing a match because of rising tensions on the border in the disputed Kashmir region.

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