We always play Pak with full intensity: BCCI

Shahid Afridi might reckon the Indian cricketers did not feel like playing against Pakistan when the two teams faced each other in a warm-up tie ahead of the World Twenty20 earlier this month, but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) certainly doesn't think so.

"I don't think there was anything wrong in the attitude of the Indian cricket team in the warm-up game against Pakistan," Ratnakar Shetty, Chief Administrative Officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, told MiD DAY yesterday.

"It is purely a figment of Afridi's imagination, if he thinks so.

"Whenever the Indian cricket team has played against Pakistan, they have played with full intensity and it was the same case even in the warm-up tie," Shetty, who was the manager of the Indian team on its historic tour to Pakistan in 2003-04.

Earlier in the day, Afridi, who guided Pakistan to their first ICC title since 1992 World Cup triumph with sterling performance in the semis and final of World Twenty20, told Geo TV, a Pakistani television channel: "I was a bit disappointed. It didn't appear to me by the attitude of the Indian players that they want to play against us.

"On the face, they said they would like to see cricket between the two countries but I think in their hearts they thought otherwise. Their attitude and behaviour while playing against us showed this."