The four Yuv Shiv Sena activists who dug up the pitch at the Ferozeshah Kotla, who owe allegiance to Srivastava, a lower court lawyer, today disowned Goyal.

``We have nothing do with Jai Bhagwan Goyal. He is not our leader. We work directly under Bal Thackeray. Goyal is a coward who had nothing to do with the pitch digging. It was not his idea,'' says an angry Rajinder Singh Raja, one of them.

They said they held a meeting today and decided to take ``action'' against Indian cricketers if they go ahead and play Pakistan in India. They threatened the team with ``dire consequences.''

The unemployed Delhi youngsters, who claim to be working under the orders of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, are confident that they can take on the state apparatus and stop the Indo-Pakistan cricket match. ``Balasaheb does not want an Indo-Pakistan match to take place in India until they stop funding terrorists in Kashmir,'' they say. Raja, Manmohan Vidrohi, Deepak Pawar, Kishen Kumar were released on bail are college drop-outs with part-time jobs.