Sri Lankan national cricket team in Pakistan for the 2008-09 season

The Sri Lankan national cricket team tour to Pakistan in the 2008-09 season took place from January 20 to March 5, 2009. Due to the attacks on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore , the tour was ended prematurely. It was an international cricket tour that was held as part of the 2008/09 international cricket season and included a three-game ODI series, which Sri Lanka won 2-1, and a test series of two games played in which all Games were counted as a draw. The ODI games were part of the ICC ODI Championship , the tests part of the ICC Test Championship .

prehistory

Originally it was planned for the period that India held a tour in Pakistan. For political reasons and security concerns following the attacks in Mumbai two months earlier, the Indian association BCCI refused to send a team. The world association ICC then carried out a safety investigation to guarantee the safety of its match officials. Originally three tests, three ODI and one Twenty20 were planned, but at the request of the Sri Lankan players, one test and the Twenty20 game was canceled.

Stages

The original plan was dated January 8, 2009, when Faisalabad was to host an ODI. At the request of the Sri Lankan Association SLC, however, this was changed on January 14th.

Karachi Lahore

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
National Stadium	Karachi	34,228	1. ODI, 2. ODI; 1st test
Gaddafi Stadium	Lahore	60,000	3. ODI; 2nd test

Squad list

Sri Lanka announced the roster for the ODIs on January 9, 2009, and Pakistan on January 12. The modified test team was named by Sri Lanka on February 3, 2009 and that of Pakistan on February 18.

test		ODI
Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Younis Khan ( K ) Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Fawad Alam Yasir Arafat Salman Butt Umar Gul Misbah-ul-Haq Faisal Iqbal Asim Kamal Danish Kaneria Sohail Khan Shoaib Malik Khurram Manzoor Ahmed Shehzad Mohammad Talha	Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Prasanna Jayawardene Chamara Kapugedera Suranga Lakmal Farveez Maharoof Ajantha Mendis Mutthiah Muralitharan Tharanga Paranavitana Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Thilan Thushara Chaminda Vaas Malinda Warnapura	Shoaib Malik ( K ) Shahid Afridi Saeed Ajmal Shoaib Akhtar Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Umar Amin Iftikhar Anjum Yasir Arafat Salman Butt Umar Gul Misbah-ul-Haq Sohail Khan Younis Khan Khurram Manzoor Sohail Tanvir	Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Thilina Kandamby Nuwan Kulasekara Farveez Maharoof Angelo Mathews Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muthiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Upul Tharanga Thilan Thushara

Tour match

February 17-18 scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI 395-4 (90)	-	Sri Lanka 283-5 (90)
		Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI wins with 112 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Karachi

January 20 scorecard	Karachi	Sri Lanka 219 (45.2)	-	Pakistan 220-2 (45.5)
		Pakistan wins with 9 wickets

Second ODI in Karachi

January 21 scorecard	Karachi	Sri Lanka 290-8 (50)	-	Pakistan 161 (34.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 129 runs

Third ODI in Lahore

January 24th scorecard	Lahore	Sri Lanka 309-5 (50)	-	Pakistan 75 (22.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 234 runs

Testing

First test in Karachi

February 21-25 scorecard	Karachi	Sri Lanka 644-7d (155.2) & 144-5 (31)	-	Pakistan 765-6d (248.5)
		draw

Second test in Lahore

March 1-5 Scorecard	Lahore	Sri Lanka 606 (151)	-	Pakistan 110-1 (24.4)
		draw

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	2	3	469	234.50	231	2	0
Younis Khan	Pakistan	2	1	313	313.00	313	1	0
Mahel Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	2	3	292	97.33	240	1	0
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	2	3	239	79.66	104	1	2
Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	2	1	158		158 *	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Umar Gul	Pakistan	2	70	9	29.77	6/135	1	0
Danish Kaneria	Pakistan	2	102.2	5	77.60	3/170	0	0
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	2	41	2	72.00	2/124	0	0
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	2	65	2	111.50	2/140	0	0
Yasir Arafat	Pakistan	2	52	2	114.00	1/90	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	3	3	255	127.50	137 *	1	1
Salman Butt	Pakistan	3	3	162	81.00	100 *	1	1
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	3	3	115	38.33	50	0	1
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	3	3	102	34.00	45	0	0
Thilina Kandamby	Sri Lanka	2	2	91	45.50	59	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Umar Gul	Pakistan	3	27	10	13.30	4/58	0	0
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	18.5	6th	10.50	3/19	0	0
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	3	22nd	5	16.60	3/17	0	0
Iftikhar Anjum	Pakistan	3	23.2	5	27.60	4/42	0	0
Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	3	16.5	4th	20.00	3/29	0	0
Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka	3	20th	4th	22.00	3/33	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
ODI	Tillakaratne Dilshan

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Salman Butt
2. ODI	Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. ODI	Tillakaratne Dilshan
1st test	Younis Khan

attack

→ Main article : Attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore

procedure

On the way from the hotel to the stadium on the third day of the second test in Lahore, the bus of the Sri Lankan team was attacked by twelve armed attackers. Six Pakistani police officers and two civilians were killed. Two players, Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana , were injured so badly that they were hospitalized. Five other players, including captain Mahela Jayawardene , suffered minor injuries. There were other injuries in the team's supervisory staff. The substitute referee Ahsan Raza was also seriously injured. After the attack, the team was driven to the stadium and flown out of the field by helicopter. With the next possible flight, the team left the country for Colombo . The current game was counted as a draw.

Consequences

As a result of the attack, other national teams refused to travel to Pakistan. The first were New Zealand , who relocated their tour to Pakistan in November 2009 to the United Arab Emirates on neutral ground . Since then, Pakistan has played its home games mostly in the United Arab Emirates or occasionally in England . It wasn't until 2015 that a team from another full member traveled to Zimbabwe for the first time for a tour in the country. One month after the attack, Pakistan was withdrawn from hosting the 2011 Cricket World Cup .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sri Lanka have confirmed tour - Pakistan board ( English ) Cricinfo. December 19, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
2. ↑ India call off Pakistan tour on government advice ( English ) Cricinfo. December 18, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
3. ↑ ICC to send security delegation to Pakistan ( English ) Cricinfo. December 22, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
4. ↑ Sri Lanka want to shorten Pakistan tour ( English ) Cricinfo. December 30, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
5. ↑ Pakistan confirms split series against Sri Lanka ( English ) Cricinfo. January 8, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
6. ↑ PCB announces revised itinerary of Sri Lanka visit ( English ) Cricinfo. January 14, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
7. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Good show in Tests earns Dilshan ODI recall ( English ) Cricinfo. January 9, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
8. ↑ Umar Amin new face in Pakistan's 15-man squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 12, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
9. ↑ Sri Lanka name two newcomers for Pakistan Tests ( English ) Cricinfo. February 3, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
10. ↑ Osman Samiuddin: Pakistan recall Asim Kamal for first test ( English ) Cricinfo. February 18, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
11. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 2008/09 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
14. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
15. ↑ Gunmen shoot Sri Lanka cricketers ( English ) BBC. March 3, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
16. ↑ Sri Lankan cricketers injured in terror attack ( English ) Cricinfo. March 3, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
17. ↑ Alex Brown: New reality dawns as Australia look for neutral series in England ( English ) Cricinfo. March 3, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
18. ↑ Zimbabwe Cricket confirms Pakistan tour ( English ) Cricinfo. April 30, 2015. Accessed August 23, 2015.
19. ↑ World Cup matches moved out of Pakistan ( English ) Cricinfo. April 17, 2015. Accessed August 23, 2015.