Just in: BCCI sources suggest that the India-Pakistan bilateral series scheduled in December is unlikely to take place, say reports.


This comes after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur in New Delhi on Monday confirmed that the talks about reviving ties with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have been cancelled.


PCB chief Shaharyar Khan was to meet newly elected BCCI president Shashank Manohar to discuss the resumption of cricketing ties between the two countries before around 70 Shiv Sena activists demonstrated at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai, asking Manohar to cancel the talks.


In response to the protest by Sena, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered the BCCI to hold the meeting with the PCB chief in Kolkata.


In the current scenario, rumours also spread that the meeting might be shifted to the national capital where BCCIs All India Senior Selection Committee also met on Monday to announce the team for the remaining matches of the on-going South Africa series.


Officially there is no meeting scheduled in New Delhi. If the talks happen, they will take place in Mumbai at the BCCI headquarters. The BCCI and PCB have some outstanding issues and the PCB chief wanted to meet the BCCI president to discuss those things but those have been cancelled now, Thakur told reporters.


I condemn this attack because you cannot barge into the BCCI office and force cancellation of the talks. In a democracy, you can protest but you can do it on the streets but you cant barge into anyones office, home or headquarters, said Thakur, who is a Lok Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.


Earlier in the day, Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Rajeev Shukla also disapproved the protest that was staged at the BCCI presidents office, which is located in the Wankhede Stadium complex.


The Shiv Sainiks carried a black flag and shouted slogans of Pakistan murdabad and Shashank Manohar murdabad. Later, the police detained more than two dozen protesting Sena activists and whisked them away as Manohar quietly watched from his office.


One of the protesters said that Shiv Sena would not permit any cricketing relations between India and Pakistan until the latter stopped the killing of Indian soldiers and civilians at the border.