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The attack on cricketers and match officials in Lahore in March 2009 brought into tragic and dramatic focus a trend that began in Sri Lanka in 1987, when New Zealand abandoned their tour after a car bomb in Colombo killed 100 people. Nine years later, Australia and West Indies refused to play their World Cup games in Sri Lanka citing danger from the ongoing civil war. Subsequent series to be affected include New Zealand's tour of Pakistan in 2002, Australia and West Indies' tours of Pakistan the same year (eventually played at neutral venues), South Africa's tour of Sri Lanka in 2006, which was truncated halfway, England's of India in November 2008, when the ODI series was cut short by the attacks in Mumbai, and India's proposed tour of Pakistan in 2009.
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Sep 28, 2009

Pakistan keen to host 2014 Twenty20

News: The Pakistan Cricket Board is interested in hosting the 2014 World Twenty2

Sep 12, 2009

A neutral home from home

Guest Column: England will host Tests for Pakistan against Australia next summer because of the dangerous security situation. But will it work?

Patrick Kidd

Sep 10, 2009

BCCI trying to isolate Pakistan - Mani

News: Ehsan Mani has accused the BCCI of trying to isolate Pakistan from the cricketing world and held it responsible for turning down the proposition of holding Pakistan's share of the 2011 World Cup matches at neutral venues

Sep 7, 2009

Sri Lankan outfit behind Lahore attack - Pakistan PM

News: Gilani indicated that he had met Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse during a recent visit to Libya, and it was Rajapakse who linked elements in Sri Lanka to the terror act

Aug 27, 2009

ICC and PCB resolve 2011 World Cup dispute

News: The PCB, which was stripped of its rights to host the tournament in the aftermath of the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, will retain its host fees and also receive payment as additional compensation for the loss of hosting rights

Jul 2, 2009

Pakistan says attempts to marginalise it in new FTP

News: Pakistan has said there were attempts to marginalise it in the draft of the next six-year international cricket programme

Osman Samiuddin

Jun 27, 2009

Full coverage of the Lahore attack

Match home: Full coverage of the aftermath of the Lahore attacks

Jun 26, 2009

PCB keen on UAE venues despite ICC snub

News: Pakistan will continue to suggest the option of Dubai and Abu Dhabi as surrogate home venues for the 2011 World Cup

Osman Samiuddin

Jun 25, 2009

Neutral venues ruled out for 2011 World Cup

News: The ICC has reaffirmed that Pakistan will not be a host nation for the 2011 World Cup, and has ruled out UAE or another fifth nation from stepping in as temporary hosts

Nagraj Gollapudi at Lord's, and Ajay S Shankar

Jun 8, 2009

Courage, desire and gritted teeth

Features: Three months after the horrific attack that nearly crippled him, Thilan Samaraweera is ready to play top-flight cricket again

Nagraj Gollapudi

Jun 2, 2009

India-Pakistan warm-up to raise funds for Lahore victims

News: India and Pakistan's eagerly anticipation clash at The Oval tomorrow has been designated as a "Catch the Spirit" match by the ICC, a fundraiser to help support families of the victims of the attack on the Sri Lanka team and officials in Lahore in March

May 31, 2009

We have "moved on" after Lahore - Sangakkara

News: Kumar Sangakkara believes his team is mentally prepared to return to international cricket after the Lahore bus attack

Nagraj Gollapudi at Lord's

May 16, 2009

Pakistan discusses two World Cup options

News: Pakistan has put forward two options as it strives to retrieve what benefits it still can from the 2011 World Cup

Sa'adi Thawfeeq

May 14, 2009

India forced Asia split on 2011 World Cup - Mani

News: Ehsan Mani, former ICC president, believes Pakistan was manoeuvred out of its hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup by a split within the Asian bloc

Osman Samiuddin

May 12, 2009

PCB confrontation with ICC intensifies

News: Days after serving the ICC with a legal notice over its decision to remove Pakistan as 2011 World Cup co-hosts, the PCB has ratcheted up the stakes in its confrontation further, sending a letter to Michael Beloff, president of the ICC Disputes Resolution

May 10, 2009

All emotion, no logic

Osman Samiuddin: Why the PCB's move to press charges against the ICC for the loss of the World Cup is misguided

Osman Samiuddin

May 9, 2009

Full statement of PCB chairman Ijaz Butt

News: Full statement of PCB chairman Ijaz Butt on the removal of Pakistan as co-hosts of the 2011 World Cup

May 9, 2009

PCB issues legal notice to ICC for World Cup exclusion

News: In the first official response to the ICC's decision to exclude Pakistan from hosting the 2011 World Cup, the Pakistan board has issued a legal notice to cricket's governing body, calling the decision to do so discriminatory and "legally flawed"

Osman Samiuddin

Apr 25, 2009

Pakistan minister happy with ICC's commitment

News: After a meeting with the ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat, Pakistan's federal minister for sport Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani has said that he is confident the ICC is committed to ensuring international cricket flourishes in Pakistan again

Apr 23, 2009

Miandad slams 'hasty' ICC decision

News: Javed Miandad, the PCB's director general, has said he was 'shocked' by the ICC's 'hasty' decision to move the 2011 World Cup out of Pakistan

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