The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) digital team included Zainab Abbas.

According to some local media organizations, Abbas left on Monday.

According to an ICC spokesperson, she had left for personal reasons.

No public statement has been made by Abbas regarding her departure. She has been contacted for comment.

Indian and Pakistani relations are tense – the neighbors have fought three wars since becoming independent nations in 1947. A one-day match between the two countries is scheduled for Saturday in Ahmedabad, western India.

Abbas has been a sports journalist and commentator since 2015. In 2019, she became the first woman to cover the cricket World Cup from Pakistan.

She arrived in India last week and covered Pakistan’s World Cup opener against the Netherlands in Hyderabad, according to Press Trust of India. For Pakistan’s other matches, she was scheduled to travel to Bengaluru, Chennai, and Ahmedabad.

He also shared a letter he wrote at the weekend to Amit Shah and Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the governing body of Indian cricket, seeking the commentator’s removal.

In India, users shared screenshots of posts attributed to Abbas’ unverified account and criticized her, making her name trend on X.

She has also been among the top trends on X in Pakistan, but users have defended her and questioned the veracity of the posts shared in her name.