Sri Lanka's 10 leading players of the team refused to tour Pakistan despite the security arrangements whose names have been released
Sri Lanka Cricket held a meeting with the players who were likely to be selected in the squad for the tour of Pakistan. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the players about the security arrangements in Pakistan and to know the opinion of these players before selecting the squad for the tour Pakistan.
Former Sri Lankan Air Force commander Marshal and Sri Lanka Cricket chief security adviser Ayr Roshan Goniti Lakhe gave players briefings on security arrangements in Pakistan, while National Selection Panel Chairman Asmatha De Mil informed about selection policy for permanent tours. And also said that players are being given complete freedom to make decisions regarding tour Pakistan.
Sri Lanka's 10 leading players of the team refused to tour Pakistan despite the security arrangements whose names have been released. According to sources Bellow crickers will away from tour of Pakistan
Niroshan Dacula
Koshal Pereira
Dhananjia da Silva
Thesara Perera
Akela Dhananjia
LaShati Malanga
Angelo Mathews
Soranga Lakmal
Dinesh Chandi Mill
Dimuth Karuna Ratne
have apologized to Pakistan while Kooshal Mendes due to some injuries will not available for squad.
As announed schedule Three ODI will play Karachi and Three T20I will be played in Lahore.
In a statement released on the micro-blogging website Twitter, by Federal Minister for Science and Technology of Pakistan Fawad Chaudhry claimed that people who aware of the cricket news are saying that the administrators of Indian cricket threatened the Sri Lankan players if they went to Pakistan. Let yourself be relieved from IPL. The federal minister criticized India, saying that hatred in every form, from space to cricket, is very ignorant. We condemn it, Indian sports authorities should be ashamed of it.
Informed sports commentators told me that India threatened SL players that they ll be ousted from IPL if they don’t refuse Pak visit, this is really cheap tactic, jingoism from sports to space is something we must condemn, really cheap on the part of Indian sports authorities— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) 10 September 2019