India, Feb. 2 -- Sunday evenings are meant to be calm, sedate, chilled out. Time with family, maybe a movie and a relaxed late dinner, and a brief lookahead to the week ahead are primary on the agenda of most people. But not on the Pakistan government's, it would appear.

Even as its Under-19 team adopted a bizarre approach in the World Cup clash against India in Bulawayo, opting for a pyrrhic victory against the neighbours instead of making even a token push for a steep target that their semifinal aspirations demanded - neither goal was achieved, as it turned out - the Pakistan government announced on X that while the senior side would travel to Sri Lanka to honour its T20 World Cup commitments, it would not play co-hosts India in Colomb...