Even as some former cricketing stalwarts call for India's non-participation in their June 16 match against Pakistan at this year's World Cup, Farokh Engineer, 80, reckons India should go ahead, play the game and, "thrash the Pakistanis at Old Trafford for our jawans."

The match is scheduled to be held in Engineer's base in Manchester, the same city that hosted the 1999 World Cup game between the arch-rivals. The former India wicketkeeper-batsman is livid with the attitude of Pakistan's cricketer prime minister Imran Khan.