PCB wishes to host Sri Lanka ‘again’

28 May, 2015

According to DNA India, a well-informed source in the Pakistan Cricket Board told PTI that the PCB had managed to convince the head of the Sri Lankan cricket interim committee, Siddhart Wettimuny to visit Lahore for the last one-day international against Zimbabwe this Sunday. “The PCB Chairman Shahryar Khan plans to hold talks with Wettimuny on the possibility of Sri Lankan sending its team for a series in April next year,” the source said.

Sri Lankan team visited Pakistan in 2009 when militants targeted the team in Lahore, since that horrific incident Test teams’ refuses to tour Pakistan.

Zimbabwe cricket team was provided with government security to visit Pakistan for two T20 and three ODI series. 60 police vans and a helicopter escorted the Zimbabwean team from Lahore’s airport to a city hotel on May 19.

Thousands of security personnel have been deployed in Lahore to protect Zimbabwe’s cricket team as it prepares for the first top-level international cricket matches in the South Asian nation.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2015

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