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Cardiff, (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan said Wednesday he would not play cricket in Pakistan again after an invite for his side to return to the anxious nation, two years after they were attacked there, was discarded.
Dilshan was on the Sri Lanka team bus shot at by militant in Lahore in March 2009 during an attack which kill eight people and wounded seven membrs of the tour party.
Asked if he would ever go back to Pakistan with Sri Lanka, Dilshan - most important the team in the first Test against England that starts here on Thursday - told reporters: "I don't think so. It was a bad understanding for me as a cricketer in Pakistan.
"As a player, I don't want to go through the same knowledge in the future. My personal view, I don't want to go back to play cricket there."
The Pakistan Cricket Board announced at the weekend they had invited Sri Lanka to play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 game in a series proposed for October.
However, the invite was twisted down by Sri Lanka Cricket chairman D.S. de Silva, who said Tuesday: "The situation, with regards to security, doesn’t allow us to play matches there. Even the ICC (International Cricket Council) has not given us security permission."
Since the attack, no major nation has tour Pakistan, forcing the country to play 'home' series in the United Arab Emirates, England and New Zealand. On Monday, Afghanistan becomes the first foreign squad to arrive in Pakistan following the attack on the Sri Lankan players. The Afghans will take on a second-string Pakistani national team in a three-match series.
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