India, July 21 -- Former Pakistan fast bowler Abdur Rauf Khan, on Monday, savaged the India Champions team after several players pulled out of the match against Pakistan in the second season of the World Championship of Legends, leading the organisers to cancel Sunday's fixture in Birmingham. The match was slated to kick off India's title-defence campaign, having defeated Pakistan to claim the trophy in the inaugural season last year.

The likes of Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan and Yusuf Pathan, and Shikhar Dhawan were the players who had reportedly withdrawn from participating in the match at Edgbaston after public outrage for changing their stance on Pakistan, just months after condemning the Pahalgam terror attack....