Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri said ‘there had been repeated violations of the understanding arrived between the two countries’.

Watkins touched home Morgan Rogers’ cross to move on to 75 top-flight strikes for Villa – one more than Gabriel Agbonlahor.

India accused Pakistan of violating a ceasefire deal made hours earlier on Saturday, after US-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.