Foreign cheerleaders shake India's conservative values

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New Delhi, May 1: : their tartan miniskirts - but they donned black full-body stockings underneath. The Mumbai dancers wore flowing, ankle-length blue pants.

Despite calls to several of the teams, the cheerleaders could not be reached for comment.

On Wednesday, in an apparent effort to avoid a similar confrontation, the owners of the Delhi Daredevils cricket team said they would replace the cheerleaders at the next game with a troop of traditional drummers.

Shriram Ramdas, a spokesman for the GMR group - the construction company that owns the Daredevils - denied that they had come under pressure to drop the foreign dancers.

He declined to explain the decision, except to say the group wanted "to experiment with different forms of entertainment."

"Who knows? Maybe next season we will have a group of our own cheerleaders from the city," he said.