KOCHI: India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh is still angry at being branded a ‘Pakistani’ by angry Shiv Sainiks at MHA’s Churchgate stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.

The sainiks were protesting against the presence of Pakistani players in the Mumbai Magicians squad. The Sainiks barged into the dressing room of the Magicians and confronted the four Pakistani players.

Apparently, one of the trouble-makers mistook Sreejesh for a Pakistani. “The guy just came up to me and told me ‘you are a Pakistani and you have no business to be here. Just get out of the place’,” Sreejesh told TOI.

Sreejesh added that the man went on and shouted at him: “Why are you looking down? That’s the trait of a Pakistani. Indians look straight in your face.”

The Kochi player said it took him some time to regain composure and then he shot back at the agitated Sainik. “You are not able to identify a player representing your country and you are insulting him further by calling him a Pakistani, that too in your own country,” the team India goalkeeper said.