There is news that India has refused to go to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy 2025, after which there has been a stir regarding this ICC event. The Indian team last visited Pakistan in the year 2008. Since then, the political relations between the two countries have become so bitter that even cricket has come under its influence. However, Pakistan had not improved even before 2008. Till the year 2008, India has made a total of 15 visits to Pakistan, including series and tournaments of all three formats of cricket, in which 6 such occasions were seen when Indian players were attacked there.

When Srikant was punched in Pakistan

The attacks on Indian cricketers during Pakistan tour started in the year 1989-90. Team India had gone to Pakistan to play a Test series. Indian player K. Srikkanth was attacked during this tour. The news came that a person associated with a religious organization punched him. Sanjay Manjrekar mentioned that incident in his book and said that during the attack, a Pakistani supporter also tore Srikkanth's jersey.

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Attack on Azhar in Pakistan

In the same match in which Srikkanth was attacked by Pakistanis with punches, Mohammad Azharuddin was hit with an iron object. This was revealed by Chandu Borde, who was the manager of Team India on that tour.

4 Indian players were stoned during the 1997 tour

However, even after these two incidents of attack on its players, India did not stop touring Pakistan.

The Indian team went to Pakistan again. But the attitude of the people there did not change. They repeated the story of the 1989-90 tour again. During the 1997 tour, during the ODI series, four players of the Indian team were attacked with stones.

During the 1997 tour under the captaincy of Sachin Tendulkar, the people and students of Pakistan targeted the Indian players with stones. The Indian players who were attacked included Sourav Ganguly, Nilesh Kulkarni, Abey Kuruvilla and Debashish Mohanty.

After the attack on Mohanty, Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar refused to enter the field citing security reasons.

Stones were thrown at Sachin in Karachi

After this, in 2006, India again visited Pakistan for Test and ODI series. During this tour, Pakistani supporters attacked Sachin Tendulkar with stones during the Karachi Test.

Pak supporters attack Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan has also mentioned the attack on him during the 2006 Pakistan tour in an interview. He has told that during the first ODI, he was attacked with some metallic object.

This happened when he was fielding at mid-wicket.

When Agarkar was killed in Rawalpindi

In the next ODI played in Rawalpindi on this tour of Pakistan, Ajit Agarkar was attacked with a small object. During that time he was fielding at third man. When Ajit Agarkar told the field umpire about this incident, the game was stopped for a while and then could be resumed.