Anti-India banners fly over Leeds during India-Sri Lanka match

Minutes later, when the India and Sri Lanka match started on Saturday, a banner carrying the words ''Justice for Kashmir'' flew above the ground.

Moments later, another aircraft carried a banner titled, ''India Stop Genocide, Free Kashmir''.

And then when India were batting during the chase of 265, a third aircraft flew above with a banner - ''Help End Mob Lynching''.

The incident on Saturday that had political overtone in it, got the BCCI to file a written complaint with the ICC.

"This is completely unacceptable. We have written to the ICC, raising our concern about what happened. If this kind of incident is repeated, it will be really unfortunate. Safety and security of our players is paramount," said a BCCI official to PTI.

During the Afghanistan versus Pakistan game, a similar banner was displayed.

The unnamed aircraft then landed at the Bradford airport.

Later on, several fans were also evicted for engaging in a brawl inside Headingley.

As far the ICC is concerned, it has zero-tolerance for political or racist slogans.

The governing body expressed its disappointment for the security breaches.

"We are incredibly disappointed this has happened again. We do not condone any sort of political messages at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup. After the previous incident we were assured by West Yorkshire Police there would not be repeat of this issue, so we are very dissatisfied it has happened again," read a statement issued by the ICC.

Cricket venues being used for political activism is something regrettable.

Yorkshire, which is in the northern part of England, has a massive Pakistan population.

Bradford is their main area.

So it is understandable that Pakistanis were behind these banners.

The ICC needs to be more alert and the police authorities of these jurisdictions should work in tandem.

Miscreants need to be punished.