Pakistan’s non-playing captain at the Davis Cup Khalid Siddiq has blamed the New Zealand captain and the Sri Lankan referee for the fiasco that caused his country’s exit from the Asia-Oceania Group II event.
The referee awarded the tie to New Zealand after ‘unplayable conditions’ on the grass courts in Myanmar meant that Pakistan had to forfeit despite leading the fixture 1-0.The decision was met with great hostility by the Pakistan management that lodged a complaint against the referee besides filing an appeal with the International Tennis Federation (ITF).While the ITF said it would review the appeal, Siddiq came down hard on referee Asitha Attygalla.