Journalists walked out of Pak coach Geoff Lawson's post-match news conference in protest after he tried to dictate rules for the media.

"Before we start, let us have some ground rules. Don't make statements, ask questions and I will only answer sensible questions," Lawson said at the outset.

If this was strange what followed was even more so. A local journalist asked him whether he would be dictating the press about what to do and what not, to which he remarked "your English is not very good", which aggravated the situation.

There was near chaos in the conference and finally local media along with their Indian counterparts walked off from the press conference and Lawson was booed while waiting for the lift to go down to the dressing room.

The incident was apparently triggered by a growing strain in relations between the local media on one hand and the Pakistan coach and captain Shoaib Malik on the other.

The local media had been unsparing in asking some hard questions over the selection matters and performance of the team. Malik also had unsavoury interactions with the media two days back.