Britain’s national press has joined a photographic boycott of England’s latest test series in protest over a ban imposed on two major photo agencies by Indian cricket’s governing body.

The Board of Cricket Control for India (BCCI) has barred Getty Images, Action Images and two Indian-based photo agencies from covering the tests – and is instead offering its own ‘official’ photo service to newspapers.

But the move appears to have backfired after the papers not only refused the pictures but observed a self-imposed ban on publishing pictures taken on the England tour “either in print or online”.