The Services team has refused to play their opening Ranji Trophy game against Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar because of security concerns.

The team, which is in the Plate division of the Ranji Trophy, opted out of the game and did not travel to the city.

"What I hear is that they have been advised not to come and that is what we have to investigate who gave them this suggestion," Farooq Abdullah, the president of the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association, told the Times Now television channel.

"When everyone else is here, including guest players and umpires, how is it that they can't come? It completely negates what the prime minister, home minister and defence minister says.

I am going to take this very seriously with the government of India and I am going to tell the PM and defence minister that this will not do." The Ranji Plate Division match was scheduled at the Sher-e-Kashmir stadium, which last hosted a one-day international against West Indies in 1986.

The last first-class game in Srinagar was in 2004 against Orissa.

The next fixture schedule here is against Haryana on November 10.