HYDERABAD, Feb 22: A large number of cricketers belonging to Voice of Youngsters Sports Welfare Association (VYSWA) staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Hyderabad Press Club on Sunday to protest exclusion of Karachi as a Test venue from itinerary for the Pakistan-India series.

Chanting slogans against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the protesters demanded that Karachi be allocated a Test and more than 40 million people of Sindh be given this once-in-a-lifetime chance of witnessing international cricket.

They said that PCB surrendered to BCCI forgetting the fact that Pakistan had not budged an inch from their place while playing against India in the 1999 Kolkata Test even though the spectators had become so nasty after Sachin Tendulkar was declared out.