January 13, 2009

India tour of Sri Lanka on February 2009

At last, it is finalized that the India vs Sri Lanka series is going to hold in the next month (February 2009). Indian officials decided not to tour in Pakistan after Mumbai terrorist attack when England tour of India. That time the ODI match series brought to end after five out of seven. That was an unwritten pressure to the world cricket every there was doubt about the test series. But, with consent of both teams, especially, when the England intelligent showed green signal to the England Cricket Team. 

After Mumbai attack, all the cricket teams over the world have decided not to visit Pakistan. The two teams India and Sri Lanka authorities thought to use the gap and planned to an ODI and a T20 match on February 2009. 

Sri Lanka has a tour of Pakistan to play three matches ODI series that will be kicked off from 21 January 2009. This is just a 7 days tour. Although the schedules does not fix yet but, it will be finalized soon. Of course it will have to be before 6th March because India has a tour of New Zealand on March. 

Source: http://www.cricket360.com/842-the-india-vs.-sri-lanka-series-on-finally.html