The Indian cricketers wore the headgear in their T20 match with Australia in solidarity with the CRPF members who were killed in the February 14 attack in the Pulwama district of India, for which the Pakistani Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility.

Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to censure the Indian team for its actions which he sees as being politically inflammatory. 

The Indian team donated their match fees to the families of the 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives in the attack.

"The world saw that the Indian cricket team wore military caps instead of their own, did ICC not see this? We think that it is the ICC's responsibility to take notice of this without the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) bringing it up," Qureshi said.

"It's just not cricket," added Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, urging the team to make an official complaint to the sport's governing body. "And if the Indian team will not be stopped, the Pakistan cricket team should wear black bands to remind the world about Indian atrocities in Kashmir."

Despite the complaint, an ICC spokesperson confirmed that India sought the go-ahead to wear the caps as a mark of respect to the dead.