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The Pakistan Cricket Board has rescheduled the opening of a T20I tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe from November 17 to November 18 too making Rawalpindi the sole venue for the tourney owing to the visiting teams' information concerns successful the aftermath of a termination onslaught successful Islamabad.
The 2nd crippled of the seven-match rubber has besides been postponed by a time to November 20.
Earlier, Lahore was scheduled to big 5 games of the event, including the last connected November 29 but the 3 boards person agreed to clasp the proceedings exclusively successful Rawalpindi now.
"The determination to revise the docket was made successful consultation with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), pursuing communal discussions to accommodate operational and lucifer requirements," the PCB said successful a connection aft nighttime of hectic negotiations to guarantee that the Lankan players bash not permission an ongoing ODI bid midway.
The Zimbabwe cricket squad reached Islamabad aboriginal Thursday greeting amid choky information for what is being described arsenic an "important preparatory level up of the 2026 ICC T20 World Cup", by the PCB.
The Sri Lankan cricket squad volition besides proceed with its bilateral circuit of Pakistan and nary subordinate oregon authoritative is readying to instrumentality home, according to its squad manager, Mahinda Halangoda.
Eight players had expressed concerns astir continuing the circuit aft the panic onslaught successful Islamabad, which near 12 dormant and respective injured. But aft SLC spoke to them and gave them assurances, they person decided to enactment for the assignment.
Halangoda said that nary subordinate would beryllium returning to Sri Lanka.
"I tin corroborate that," helium asserted.
A reliable root alert of the developments said it had taken monolithic down the scenes efforts to person the players that they would beryllium harmless successful Pakistan and should proceed playing the series.
"The Sri Lanka committee President Shammi Silva and the Sri Lankan High Commissioner successful Pakistan got progressive and things are settled for now," helium said.
PCB Chairman and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said helium was grateful to the Sri Lankan squad for the determination to proceed the Pakistan tour.
The PCB aboriginal announced a flimsy alteration successful the docket of the remaining 2 one-day games. The PCB announced that the 2 matches volition present beryllium played connected Friday and Sunday successful Rawalpindi, alternatively of the primitively planned dates of November 13 and 15.
