January 5, 2009

India tour of Sri Lanka is uncertain

India has stopped the tour on Pakistan after the massive Mumbai terrorist attack during the cricket match along with England in the home soil. Now, Indian cricket team has not tour in with in tow month that is why BCCI has proposed to Sri Lanka to host an ODI series whenever Sri Lanka has also been stopped their tour of Pakistan.

 

CricketNext reported:

According to Chief Administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty of the BCCI, there has been no official communication with the Sri Lankan Cricket board in this regard.

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, has stepped in to tour Pakistan. But their Sports Minister said on Sunday that the tour would be split with Sri Lanka returning home after the one-dayers to play five games against India.

 

Although the time schedule is not fixed yet, even the Sri Lanka did not show any green signal to the BCCI. Most probably, both the counties are thinking positively about the ODI series. On the other side, India has a tour of New Zealand on 06 Mar 2009. BCCI has requested to the New Zealand Cricket to add one test match during the tour.