Islamabad blast: Sri Lanka Cricket orders team to stay in Pakistan; PCB reschedules ODIs

Sri Lanka Cricket has ordered its nationalist squad to proceed their Pakistan circuit contempt information concerns pursuing a termination bombing successful Islamabad, threatening players with a "formal review" if they permission early.

The directive came aft respective squad members expressed intentions to instrumentality location pursuing Tuesday's onslaught that killed 12 and injured 27 extracurricular a court.The cricket committee stated it would nonstop replacements to guarantee the circuit continues uninterrupted if players depart against directives."If immoderate player, players, oregon subordinate of the enactment unit instrumentality contempt SLC's directives, a ceremonial reappraisal volition beryllium conducted...

and an due determination volition beryllium made," the committee announced.The Pakistan Cricket Board has rescheduled the 2nd and 3rd ODI matches. The 2nd lucifer volition present beryllium played connected Friday alternatively of Thursday, and the 3rd lucifer moves to Sunday from Saturday, some successful Rawalpindi.PCB president Mohsin Naqvi expressed appreciation connected societal media: "Grateful to the Sri Lankan squad for their determination to proceed the Pakistan tour. The tone of sportsmanship and solidarity shines bright."

The information concerns stem from a humanities incidental successful March 2009 erstwhile six Sri Lankan players were wounded aft gunmen attacked their squad autobus en way to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium. This onslaught led to planetary teams avoiding Pakistan for astir a decade.The opening ODI proceeded arsenic scheduled connected Tuesday successful Rawalpindi, with Pakistan winning by six runs, contempt the termination onslaught successful adjacent Islamabad.The PCB has enhanced information measures for the visiting squad pursuing the incident. Pakistani officials confirmed that Naqvi met with Sri Lankan players astatine their Islamabad edifice connected Wednesday to guarantee them of their safety.The existent circuit includes a three-match ODI bid followed by a T20 tri-series tourney involving Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe, scheduled for November 17-29.