New Delhi: Hockey India chief Narinder Batra on Saturday blasted the BCCI for deciding to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan at a time when soldiers are dying in the line of duty.

The BCCI is awaiting the government nod to play Pakistan in Sri Lanka, a complete change of stance from the world's richest cricket board months after its secretary Anurag Thakur had ruled out revival of cricketing ties with arch-rivals until cross-border terrorism stops.